150 Mr. W. W. Saunders’s Descriptions 
transversely with the same colour. Legs reddish brown, with the 
apices of the femora and tibia and the tarsi black. Tarsi 4-jointed; 
third joint deeply bilobed, the fourth joint little exceeding it. 
Length -23, inch. 
In the Cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Habitat New South Wales. 
Sp. 2. Aporocera apicalis, W. W.S. (Pl. IX. fig. 4.) 
Head vertical, subtriangular, red brown, with the eyes kidney- 
shaped and black. Antenne inserted in the sinus of the eyes, 
not so long and rather stouter than in 4. bicolor. Thorax red 
brown, gibbous and rounded in front, as broad as the elytra, with 
a wide shallow transverse furrow curved posteriorly a little behind 
the middle, smooth and somewhat shining. Scutellum small, 
triangular, red brown, margined with black. Elytra not quite 
twice as long as broad, deeply and coarsely punctured in regular 
striz, red brown, with the apices black; each elytron having a 
large lateral lobe projecting downwards a little behind the shoulders. 
Under side of body black and pubescent. Legs red brown, with 
the apices of the femora and tibiz and the tarsi black. 
Length 523, inch. 
In the Cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Habitat New South Wales. 
Sp. 3. Aporocera chalybea, W. W.S. 
Head dark chesnut brown, with the region about the mouth 
ochraceous, and the eyes black. Antennz black. Thorax pitchy 
black, margined with ochraceous, shining and deeply punctured, 
except along the vertex and near the shoulders, which portions 
are extremely smooth. Scutellum quadrate, shining black, much 
raised behind. Elytra of a shining chalybeate blue, deeply 
and irregularly punctured. Under side of body and legs pale 
ochraceous yellow; the latter ochraceous, with the apices of the 
tibize and tarsi black. 
Length 3; inch. 
From Port Essington. 
In the Collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Sp. 4. Aporocera catoxantha, Hope, MSS. 
Head pale ochraceous, with the eyes black. Antenne black, 
with the basal joint brown, as long as the body, somewhat slender. 
Thorax ochraceous, shining, punctured, except near the shoulders. 
