256 Rey. H. Clark on new Australian Phytophaga. 
modice convexa. Pedes elongati,robusti ; femoribus apicem versus in- 
crassatis; tibiis elongatis, lente arcuatis, mediis et posticis ad apicem 
externa parte dente brevi armatis; ¢ars’s robustis, articulo penultimo 
bifido ; wnguiculis mucronatis, in typo anticis bidentatis et posterioribus 
appendiculatis. 
Basilepta of Baly, of which an excellent figure is given in the 
Journal of Entomology, vol. i. pl. 1. fig. 1, is found in Borneo, and is 
evidently allied to Damelia, a Fiji Island form. The above diagnosis 
will, however, point out several points of difference. In the genus 
before us the antenne are much less filiform, the body is a trifle 
shorter, less attenuate in proportion to its length; the legs (though 
longer than in many genera of Eumolpide) are not so long as, and 
are more robust than, those of Basilepta: there is no trace of any 
toothing on the femora; the two hinder pairs of tibiee, however, are 
armed with a short spine near the apex. In the type, D. Marshalli, 
the claws also differ from those of Basilepta longipes. 
D. Marshalli, n. sp. 
D. ovalis, crebre et irregulariter verrucosa et punctata, nigro-senea 
vel purpureo-nigra, nitida; capite crebre punctato, punctis aliquando 
quasi confluentibus; thorace elytris duplo fere angustiore, lateribus 
rotundatis haud marginatis, antice et ad basin contractis, disco fortiter 
et dense punctato et tuberculis quoque tribus, una media antice, aliisque 
undique medium juxta; scutello subtriangulari, punctato ; elytris sat 
latis, latitudine thorace duplo fere majoribus, humeris exstantibus, late- 
ribus parallelis, ad apicem rotundatis, fortiter et crebre punctatis, tuber- 
culis quibusdam oblongis (irregulariter dispositis, veluti striis incertis 
instructis), elytris ad apicem tenui pube vestitis; corpore subtus rufo- 
nigro; pedibus rufis vel fusco-rufis; antennis fusco-rufis, art, 9Q—]]um 
flavis. 
Long. corp. lin. 23, lat. lin. 1}. 
This pretty little species was taken sparingly in the Fiji Islands 
by M. Damel, who communicated examples of it to me, and also to 
Dr. Dohrn, of Stettin. I have seen five examples, which do not differ 
from one another, except slightly in the colour of their legs. In 
naming it after my friend the Rey. T. A. Marshall, I desire to ex- 
press the pleasure with which we all welcome him as a fellow worker 
among the Phytophaga, and as the special occupant of a group which, 
above all, demands and will reward his patience and untiring perse- 
verance. 
In the collections of the Rev. T. A. Marshall, Mr. Baly, and the 
Rev. H. Clark. 
