398 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, 



punctate, with two slightly raised costa? on each side of the suture, 

 and with the pile disposed in lines of single hairs. The fore tibia? 

 bidentate, the teeth small and rather distant ; tarsi subcyaneous. 



Length, 2| lines. Male specimen only. 



Hab. — Mitchell's Exp. Yict. River. 



2. Dorsal channel of the thorax single, lateral fovea? reaching 

 the middle. 



31. Diphucephala pulchella, "Waterh. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I. p. 221. 



Green or bluish, nitid, sparingly pilose. Head smooth on the 

 vertex, densely and finely punctate in front, clypeus in the male 

 very slightly emarginate and reflexed, the angles somewhat 

 truncate. Thorax thinly punctate, the dorsal channel of an 

 elongated oval form, the lateral foveae large, extending in a shallow 

 depression to the dorsal channel. Scutellum deeply foveated in the 

 middle, smooth. Elytra coarsely and thickly punctuate. Fore 

 tibia? strongly bidentate, the teeth reddish. 



Length, 3J lines. 



Hab. — Victoria and South Australia. 



32. Diphucephala atjrolimbata, Blanch. 



Cat. Coll Ent. Mus. Paris, p. 99. 



Smaller than D. pulchella, depressed, nitid, green, the middle of 

 the thorax and the external limb of the elytra, of a brilliant golden 

 hue ; above almost glabrous, beneath with whitish pile. Head 

 densely punctate ; clypeus deeply forked, the angles spatuliform. 

 Thorax strongly punctate, deeply and broadly sulcate in the middle, 

 the lateral fovea? deep. Elytra flat, rugosely punctate, with 

 longitudinal lines scarcely elevated, and some very short fulvous 

 pile at the apex. Legs green, tarsi obscurely cyaneous. 



To the above translated description of'Blanchard's, I have only to 

 add— " lateral fovea? of the thorax traceable to the dorsal channel, 

 and fore tibiae bidentate." 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hab. — Northern Coast of N. S. Wales, and Southern Queensland. 



