400 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, 



Of a coppery-red colour, lightly pilose above, more densely 

 beneath. Head densely punctate in front, depressed broadly on 

 the forehead between the eyes, the clypeus in the male very slightly 

 emarginate and renexed. Thorax coarsely and sparsely punctate, 

 the dorsal channel slight on the anterior half, and very large, deep 

 and square on the basal half, and. divided in the middle by a 

 smooth ridge ; the lateral fovese extending in a deep groove to the 

 dorsal channel. Elytra densely and rugosely punctate in rows. 

 Anterior tibiae strongly bidentate, the teeth reddish. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. — New South Wales Coast districts. 



I have two imperfect specimens of a very brilliant species from 

 the Richmond River, which closely resembles this one in every 

 respect, excepting its more brilliant colouring and less pilosity. I 

 have given it the cabinet name of D. effidgens. 



36. Diphucephala parvula, Waterh. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lon. I. p. 223; Burm. Handb. IV. p 118. 



Golden or coppery-green, rather thinly pilose. Head densely 

 punctate in front, the clypeus in the male somewhat triangularly 

 roundly emarginate, the angles rounded and renexed. Thorax 

 coarsely and thinly punctate, the dorsal channel broad on the basal 

 half, divided into two by a smooth central ridge not extending 

 on the anterior half, and the lateral fovese very wide at the sides, 

 and scarcely reaching the middle. Scutellum smooth. Elytra 

 rugosely punctate, anterior tibiae with the terminal tooth only. 



Length, 1\ lines. 



Hab. — New South Wales. 



37. Diphucephala pygm^ea, Waterh. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. I. p. 227 ; Burm. Handb. IV. 

 p. 118; D.fulgida? Boisd. Yoy. Astrol. Col. p. 205. 



Green, scarcely nitid, rather densely covered on the upper 

 surface with short decumbent and yellowish pile, beneath more 

 densely whitish pilose. Clypeus of the male narrow and recurved, 



