BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 415 



Fam. MELOLONTHID^l. 



DlPHUCEPHALA HIRTIPENNIS. 



Most resembles D. pilistriata. 



Metallic green, the antennae, palpi and legs reddish. Head 

 densely punctured, clypeus broad, the angles in the male sharp, 

 prominent, and recurved. Thorax punctured, broadest at the 

 base and clothed with short ashen pubescence, the median and 

 lateral foveas are broad and deep and join in the centre of the disc ; 

 a tooth at the lateral extremity of the lateral foveas. Scutellum 

 rounded behind without pubescence. 



Elytra punctate, clothed with a short ashen pubescence disposed 

 in longitudinal rows. The abdominal segments are similarly 

 clothed. The anterior tibiae are bidentated externally at the apex. 



Long. 3 J lin. 



DlPHUCEPHALA CCERULEA. 



Blue, nitid, with a purplish hue on the elytra. Head small, 

 punctate, the clypeus terminating on each side in a prominent 

 sub-obtuse recurved point. Thorax thinly punctate with the 

 median line narrow and the lateral foveas small. Elytra coarsely 

 punctate, with three almost obliterated costas on each. Under 

 surface densely clothed with short cinereous pubescence. Anterior 

 tibiae bidentated externally. 



Long. 3£ lin. 



DlPHUCEPHALA LATIPENNIS. 



Metallic-green, nitid, more or less clothed all over with an ashen 

 pubescence. Head not broad, punctate, with the clypeus pro- 

 foundly emarginate, and the angles prominent, rounded and 

 reflexed. Thorax coarsely punctate, the median line broad, and 

 the lateral foveas large, but not joining in the middle of the disc. 

 Scutellum large, triangular, smooth, and impressed in the middle. 



Elytra broad, and coarsely punctured in crowded rows. Pygi- 

 dium densely pubescent. Anterior tibiae unarmed. 



Long. 3 lin. 



