282 Phytophaga Malayana. 



the middle, rounded and converging in front ; surface smooth, 

 very minutely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, ob- 

 long, nearly parallel, regularly punctate-striate ; the surface of 

 each covered with nine large oval pale fulvous spots, the first 

 eight placed two and two in four transverse rows ; the ninth, 

 which stands alone at the apex, is often obsolete. 



Genus Phyllocharis, Dalman. 



Ephem. Ent. p. 20. 



Corpus anguste oblongum aut elongatum, parallelum, con- 

 vexum. Caput modice exsertum ; antennis robustis, arti- 

 culo basali subgloboso, duobus vel tribus proximis monili- 

 formibus, sequalibus, cseteris submoniliformibns aut subfili- 

 formibus ; palpis maxillaribus brevibus, ovatis, articulis 

 brevibus, basali minuto, secundo tertioque elevatis, hoc in- 

 crassato, ultimo conico, obtuso, rarius acuto. Thorax trans- 

 versim quadratus, lateribus incrassatis, intus impresso-mar- 

 ginatis. Elytra thorace vix latiora, plerumque punctato- 

 striata. Pedes modice robusti ; unguiculls unidentatis. 



1. Phyllocharis cyanipes, Fabr. 



Chrysomela cyanipes, Fabr. Sy§t. Ent. i. p. 320 ; Syst. El. i. 



p. 43(5 ; Oliv. Ent. v. p. 541, pi. iv. fig. 50. 

 Chrysomela sinuata, Oliv. Ent. v. p. 543, pi. vii. fig. 100. 

 Phyllocharis sinuata, Boisd. Voy. de I'Astrol. p. 573. 

 Phyllocharis cyanitarsis, Cuv. Reg. Anim. pi. Ixxiii. fig. 1. 

 Phyllocharis cyanipes, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. 



iv. p. 330, pi. xviii. fig. 18; Dalman, Ephem. Ent. p. 21. 



Oblon^a, rufa, nitida ; antennis, pedibus, fasciisque duabus 

 elytrorum cyaneis. 



Var. A. Elytris punctis posticeque cyaneis. 



Long. 34 — 4| lin. 



Hab. Amboina ; also Australia. 



Oblong, shining red. Face deeply impressed ; antennae deep 

 blue. Thorax narrowly margined, twice as broad as long, rather 

 wider in front ; the sides nearly parallel, slightly convex anteriorly, 

 front margin concave, anterior angles subacute ; surface convex, 

 swollen in front, smooth, on the disk are a few indistinct punc- 



