394 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, 



21. DIPHUCEPHALA LATIPENNIS, Mad. 



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



Hdb. — Queensland. 



Description omitted for same reason as last species. 



22. Diphucephala Mastersi, n. sp. 



Of broad convex form, the upper surface excepting the scutellum 

 entirely of a reddish coppery lustre, rather thickly clothed with 

 decumbent whitish pile. The head is small, the clypeus rather 

 deeply emarginate, narrow, the angles diverging, rounded and 

 reflexed. Thorax moderately punctate, the dorsal channel lightly 

 impressed, and the lateral fovea3 not large. Scutellum golden- 

 green, smooth, longitudinally impressed in the middle. Elytra 

 rugosely but not deeply punctate. Under surface green, pilose, 

 pygidium pointed, very hairy. Legs green, tarsi cyaneous, fore 

 tibiae not bidentate, 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. — King George's Sound. 



23. Diphucephala Barnardi, n. sp. 



Nitid metallic-green with an occasional bluish-green tinge, moder- 

 ately pilose above, more densely beneath. Head densely punctate, 

 the punctures on the clypeus more minute, a slight transverse 

 depression from eye to eye across the vertex, the clypeus of the 

 male rather deeply emarginate, the angles porrect, slightly reflexed 

 and broadly rounded at the apex. The thorax is thinly punctate, 

 the dorsal channel dilated ovally on the basal half, the lateral 

 foveae very deep and large, but not reaching the dorsal channel 

 and the lateral angles prominent. The scutellum is triangularly 

 rounded, with a depression in the middle towards the apex. The 

 elytra are densely and rugosely punctate, with the pile apparently 

 disposed in rows of single hairs, the female has the lateral margins 



