BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, P.L.S., &C. 389 



9. DlPHUCEPHALA NITENS, n. sp. 



Of short robust form. Metallic-green with red legs, the 

 pubescence, both above and beneath, extremely short, and not 

 dense. Head and clypeus densely and finely punctate, the latter 

 scarcely emarginate or reflexed. Thorax finely punctate, the disk 

 very nitid and of a golden-red, the sides not angled, the dorsal 

 channel straight and narrow and the lateral fovea? small. 

 Scutelium smooth and of a brilliant coppery lustre. Elytra green 

 on the disk and golden or coppery-red on the sides, densely and 

 coarsely punctate in irregular rows, with two of the interstices 

 and the suture on each elytron forming smooth costae. The legs 

 are strong and of a pale red colour, the fore tibia? are strongly 

 bidentated externally, the intermediate unidentate, and both the 

 tarsi and extremities of the tibia? in the four posterior legs are 

 brown. 



Length, 2 J lines. 



Hab. — Endeavour River. 



10. DlPHUCEPHALA PUBESCENS, n. Sp. 



Green, the whole upper surface densely and equally clothed with 

 a short yellowish decumbent pubesence, the under surface still more 

 densely covered with a white decumbent pubescence. Clypeus 

 slightly emarginate and reflexed. Dorsal channel of thorax broad 

 and shallow on its posterior half, the lateral fovea? small. Scutelium 

 smooth. Pygidium large, glabrous at the apex. Legs red, fore 

 tibia? bidentate. 



Length, 2f lines. 



Hab. Queensland. 



11. DlPHUCEPHALA HIRTIPENNIS, Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, VIII. p. 415. 



Hab. — Queensland. 



The type of this species is in the Brisbane Museum, and so far 

 as I know nowhere else. As it was originally described in the 

 Publications of this Society, I avoid repeating the description. 



