BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L S., &C. 393 



Of short broad form, coppery-green colour, and sparingly clothed 

 above and beneath with decumbent white pile. Head punctate, 

 the clypeus of the males slightly emarginate and reflexed, the angles 

 not acute. The thorax is covered with large variolous-lookino- 

 punctures, the dorsal channel is scarcely visible except on the basal 

 portion, the lateral foveae are deep but do not reach the middle, and 

 the anterior angles are acute. The scutellum is depressed behind 

 and very minutely punctate. The elytra are coarsely and densely 

 punctate. The pygidium is convex, rounded and glabrous at the 

 apex. The legs are green, the tarsi cyaneous, the fore tibiee biden- 

 tate, the teeth reddish. 



Length, 2£ lines. 



Hab. — New South Wales. 



Common about Sydney on flowers of Dillwynia. 



19. Diphucephala castanoptera, Waterh. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I. p. 222 ; Burin. Handb., IV., p. 117. 



This is the only species I know with non-metallic elytra. The 

 head is punctate and of a golden-green, the clypeus lightly emar- 

 ginate and reflexed and of a cyaneous-green, the thorax is pilose, 

 of a golden-green, and rather sparingly punctate, the dorsal 

 channel very broad on the basal half, and the lateral fovea) also 

 large. Scutellum green, smooth, in form of a curvilinear triangle. 

 Elytra reddish-chesnut sparingly pilose and punctate in tolerably 

 regular rows. Anterior tibiae strongly bidentate. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hab. — Port Macquarie. 



20. Diphucephala ccerulea, Macl. 



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

 Hab. — Queensland. 



Description omitted because previously printed in Society's 

 Proceedings. 



