390 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, 



SECTION II. 



Legs of metallic lustre. 



Sub-section A. 

 Emargination of clypeus in the male deep, the angles not or 

 scarcely diverging. 



12. Diphucephala Childrenii, Waterh. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I. p. 222 ; Burm. Handb. IV. p. 115. 



Of a general sericeous appearance ; the head and thorax are of 

 a dull golden-green colour, the elytra are of a dull green margined 

 with golden-green. The thorax is very minutely punctate, the 

 dorsal channel light and narrow, the lateral fovea3 small. The 

 scutellum is smooth and longitudinally impressed in the middle. 

 The puncturation of the elytra is of the same character as in the 

 other species but more obliterate. The under surface is thinly 

 clothed with decumbent pubescence, the fore tibiae are bidentate, 

 the teeth distant, the tarsi are cyaneous. The clypeus of the male 

 is deeply emarginate, the angles slightly approaching in front. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. — West Australia. 



13. Diphucephala furcata, Guer. 



Voy. Coquille, II. p. 89; Begn. Anim. t. 24, fig. 13; D. 

 acanthopus, Boisd. Voy. Astrol Col. p. 202 ; D. Hopei, Waterh. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I. fig. 219; Burm. Handb. IV. p. 119. 



This species resembles D. Childrenii in many respects. The head 

 and thorax are very densely and extremely minutely punctate like 

 shagreen, the latter slightly marked as in D. Childrenii. The 

 scutellum is also similar, the elytra differ in being nitid and deeply 

 punctate, the under surface is thinly pubescent, and the segments 

 of the abdomen are furnished with frills of long hair. The legs 

 are coppery, the tarsi cyaneous, the fore tibiae without the upper 

 tooth on the outside but all the tibiae have a short strong tooth on 

 the inner apex. The clypeus of the males as in D. Childrenii. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. — West Australia. 



