600 j\Ir. J. S. Baly's descriptions of a 



round puncture ; encarpre obsolete ; carina sliort, linear ; 

 clypcus tri<>'onate; antennae robust, rather more than half 

 the length of the body ; thi-ee lower joints, together with 

 the base of the 4th, obscure fulvous, the basal one stained 

 above with piceous ; 2nd and 3rd short, equal in lengtli ; 

 4th distinctly longer than the 3rd. Thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long ; sides nearly straight, converging 

 from base to apex, anterior angle thickened, obli(piely 

 truncate ; upper surface distinctly but subremotely punc- 

 tured. Elytra broader than the thorax, the shoulders very 

 obliquely rounded ; above convex, rather strongly punc- 

 tured. Hinder tibia? robust, about ecpial in length to the 

 femora, reciu-ved towards the apex, channelled above ; 

 edges of the groove serrate. 



The bi'oadly ovate form, together with the obliquely 

 truncate anterior angles of the thorax, will at once distin- 

 guish this species I'rom the two others described in the 

 present paper. 



Genus PsYLLiODES, Latr. 

 Psylliodes Novcb CaJedonice. 



Elongato-ovata, convexa, cupreo-ffinea, nitida, antennis 

 nigris, basi fulvis ; siibtus nigro-picea, pedibus pallide 

 piceis, femoribus posticis dorso obscuris, thorace distincte 

 punctato ; elytris regulariter punctato-striatis, interspatiis 

 plan is. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. — New Caledonia. 



Vertex impunctate, Avhen seen under a deep lens obso- 

 letely wrinkled ; eyes large, black ; antenna? more than 

 half the length of the body ; three lower joints equal in 

 length, fulvous, the 4th and oth obscure piceous, the rest 

 black ; encarpjB oblique, ill-defined above. Thorax about 

 one-half broader than long; sides nearly straight, slightly 

 converging from base to apex, anterior angles obliquely 

 truncate, produced laterally into a small tooth ; basal 

 margin oblique on either side, obsoletely sinuate ; upper 

 surface distinctly but finely and not very closely ])unc- 

 tured. Elytra broader than the thorax, very obliquely 

 rounded at the shoidders, converging towards the apex ; 

 regularly but not strongly ])unctate-striate ; interspaces 

 plane. Hinder tibia armed on its u])per surface, near the 

 apex, with an ill-defined tooth ; apical process one-tliird 

 the length of the whole tibia, its lateral border denliculale. 



