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triangular. Elytra rugosely punctate, two very slightly raised 

 lines on each elytron. The under surface is densely covered with 

 white pubescence. The pygidium is very large. The fore tibia? 

 are rather minutely bidentate on the outer apex, the intermediate 

 minutely spurred on the inner apex, and the posterior are brown 

 on the apical half. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — New South Wales. 



3. DlPHUCEPHALA LINEATA, Boisd. 



Yoy. Astrol. Col., p. 202 ; D. pilistriata, Waterh., Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, Lond., I., p. 21. 



Green, nitid, clothed rather thinly with white decumbent pile 

 above and below ; that on the elytra being disposed in rows. The 

 clypeus is only slightly emarginate; the thorax is sparsely punctate 

 the lateral fovepe very large and deep, extending to the dorsal 

 channel which is large and wide. Scutellum smooth, of curvilinear 

 triangular form. Elytra punctate in irregular rows. Legs entirely 

 red, the fore tibiae strongly bidentated, the terminal tooth consi- 

 derably recurved, the intermediate and posterior tibiae spurred on 

 the inner apex. 



Length, 3J lines. 

 Hab.— New South Wales 1 



The specimens of this insect in the Macleayan Museum have no 

 locality affixed to them, and I have never seen it elsewhere. 



4. DlPHUCEPHALA RlCHMONDIA, n. sp. 



Very like D. lineata, but much larger. The head is bright 

 metallic green, punctured in front and smooth behind ; with a 

 shallow impression between the eyes and a transverse one on the 

 vertex ; the clypeus is broad, sharply angled and recurved on sides 

 and angle. The thorax is of a brilliant metallic green, more thinly 

 pilose than D. lineata, and with the dorsal and transverse channels 

 deeper and more continuous. Scutellum smooth and a little 

 depressed in the middle. The elytra are of a ruddy metallic hue, 



