284 Phytophaga Malayana. 



elytra violet-copper ; antennae black. Head shining, impunctate; 

 epistome separated from the face by an angular groove, the apex 

 of which is rounded ; antennae two-thirds the length of the body, 

 robust, four basal joints shining, pitchy beneath. Thorax twice 

 as broad as long; apex slightly concave-emarginate ; sides straight 

 and subparallel, narrowed and rounded in front, apex of anterior 

 angles subacute ; above transversely convex, surface smooth and 

 shining, very remotely punctured, sides near the base impressed 

 with numerous large round punctures. Scutellum semiovate, 

 rufo-piceous. Elytra broader than the thorax, narrowly sub- 

 ovate, slightly narrowed posteriorly, the apex itself subacutely 

 rounded ; above convex, sinuate on the sides below the 

 shoulder ; each elytron impressed with eleven rows of fine but 

 deep punctures, the first row abbreviated ; interspaces distantly 

 impressed with fine but distinct punctures, which are often ar- 

 ranged in a single row down the centre of each interspace. Be- 

 neath shining rufo-testaceous, palpi pale piceous. 



4. Phyllocharis bicincta, Guerin. 

 Voy. de la Coquille, ii. p. 145 ; Icon, du Regne Anim. pi. xlix. 



fig. 3. 

 Phyllocharis immacidicoUis, Blanch. Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. iv. 

 p. 331, pi. xviii. fig. 19. 

 Elongata, rufo-testacea, nitida, antennis nigro-cyaneis, scutello 

 nigro ; elytris thorace latioribus, punctato-striatis, postice 

 confuse punctatis, fasciis duabus latis, una basali, altera pone 

 medium posita, nigro-cyaneis; pedibus, pectore, abdomineque 

 nigro-cyaneis, hoc apice rufo. 

 Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Thorax transverse, impunctate, transversely depressed along the 

 basal margin ; sides nearly straight, rounded and converging in 

 front. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, punctate-striate 

 on the anterior disk, irregularly punctured below the middle ; the 

 basal band occupying the anterior third of the elytra, the posterior 

 band equally broad, occupying nearly the whole of the hinder 

 disk. 



5. Phyllocharis apicalis, Baly. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. i. p. 617. 

 Elongata, parallela, convexa, caeruleo-nigra, nitida ; elytris ob- 



