64 MARTIN JACOBY 



New Guinea, Island of Yale, June (L. M. D'Albertis). 



This species is not unlike in appareance with A. lulesce?is of 

 Europe Ijut may be distinguished by its impunctate upper sur- 

 face and the less transverse thorax. 



(50. A.i)lithoiia fulvicollis , n. sp. 



Below piceous or black ; head , thorax , 3 basal joints of the 

 antennae and the anterior legs , fulvous ; elytra metallic greenish 

 blue, finely punctured. 



Length 1 Yj line. 



Head impunctate; frontal tubercles transverse, bounded behind 

 by a deep transverse groove ; eyes large ; clypeus extending 

 upwards in a sharply raised ridge between the antennae; palpi 

 rather slender, like the labrum fulvous; antennae nearly two 

 third the length of the body, the second and third joints short, 

 nearly equal, the two following somewhat triangularly widened, 

 the rest more elongate; black, the three basal joints fulvous; 

 thorax of the same colour, subquadrate, a little wider than 

 long, the sides very slightly, the posterior margin strongly 

 rounded, anterior one straight; all the angles ill defined; sur- 

 face smooth, impunctate, shining; scutellum black; elytra very 

 finely and closely punctured throughout, metallic greenish blue; 

 anterior legs more or less fulvous, the rest as well as the un- 

 derside black or piceous, posterior tibiae with a distinct spine; 

 their first tarsal joint as long as the two following ones toge- 

 ther; claws appendiculate; coxal cavities open. 



Australia, Somerset, January (L. M. D'Albertis). 



Gl. Psylliodes eog-nata, ? Baly. 



New Guinea, Sorong (L. M. D'Albertis). 



Numerous specimens of this or at all events a very closely 

 allied species were obtained at the above locality. In comparing 

 it with the tyj)e in the collection of M.^' Baly, I find that the 

 thorax of the specimens before me is rather less regulai-ly punc- 



