of the Chrysomelide. 149 
brown. Thorax rufous brown, shining, punctured, somewhat 
gibbous in front, with the anterior margin piceous. Scutellum 
smooth, black, shining, with a violet coloured iridescence, but 
little elevated at the apex. Elytra dark metallic green, with the 
apex of a livid horn colour, deeply punctured; the punctures 
forming regular strize laterally near the apex. Legs horn-coloured, 
with the tarsi dusky. Under side of the body black, pubescent, 
with the apex of the abdomen horn-coloured. 
Length =, inch. 
In the Cabinet of the Entomological Society. 
Taken in the vicinity of Sidney, New South Wales, by Mr. 
Darwin. 
AporocERA (azropoc kepac), mihi. 
Head vertical, subtriangular. Antenne two-thirds the length 
of the body, 11-jointed; the first swollen, pyriform; the second 
globular, small; the remainder subtriangular, broad, flattened, 
nearly of equal length, the fifth joint being somewhat the longest 
and broadest; the last joint with a terminal conical point, like a 
very small additional joint. Z'horax gibbous in front, as broad as 
the elytra. Body cylindrical. Tarsi 4-jointed, the penultimate 
Joint deeply bilobed. 
This genus is nearly allied to Clythra, as before stated, differing 
chiefly in the antenna, which are long, with the joints broad and 
flattened, without any tendency to being pectinated. It also 
approaches near to Cryptocephalus ; but the antennze again well 
distinguish it from that genus, which has those organs filiform. 
Sp. 1. Aporocera bicolor, mihi. (PI. IX. fig. 3.) 
Head vertical, subtrigonate, not so broad as the thorax, red 
brown; with the eyes kidney-shaped and black. Antenne, 
arising from the sinus of the eyes, black, 11-jointed, and rather 
more than two-thirds the length of the body, pubescent. Thorax 
as broad as the elytra, rounded and gibbous in front, smooth and 
shining, of deep reddish brown, nearly as long as broad, with a 
broad shallow transverse furrow a little behind the middle, and 
curving posteriorly. Scutellum small, black-green, triangular. 
Elytra nearly twice as long as broad, of a dark black shining green, 
deeply and coarsely punctured in regular striz ; each elytron with 
a large lateral lobe projecting downwards just behind the shoulders. 
Body beneath reddish brown, pubescent, with the region of the 
metasternum black, and the joints of the abdomen also striped 
