290 Phytophaga Malayana. 



striato-punctatis, aureo-viridibus, postice cyaneis, apice tes- 

 taceis ; pedibus viridibus, abdomine apice testaceo. 



Lonw. 7 — 9 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Front stained with metallic-green, impressed with a large deep 

 excavation, down the middle of which runs a longitudinal groove ; 

 antennae half the length of the body, two lower joints rufo-fulvous, 

 stained above with metallic-green. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long ; sides straight, slightly converging from base to apex, more 

 quickly converging at the extreme apex, sides bordered within 

 by a broad, deep, very coarsely and irregularly excavated longi- 

 tudinal space ; disk smooth, impunctate. Elytra metallic-green, 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, convex, irregularly foveolate 

 below the basilar space, punctate-striate ; hinder third of the 

 surface irregularly punctured, metallic-blue ; the extreme apex 

 testaceous. Abdomen rufo-testaceous, more or less stained at its 

 base with piceous. 



5. Mscrnia splendens, Guerin. 

 Phjllocharis splendens, Guerin, Voy. de la Coquille, ii. p. 244; 

 Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins, pi. xlix. fig. 4; Blanch. Voy. au Pole 

 Sud, Zool. iv. p. 333, pi. xix. fig. 3. 

 Elongata, parallela, convexa, subtus obscure aenea, nitida, ab- 

 dominis apice femoribusque basi riifo-testaceis ; capite tes- 

 taceo-fulvo, seepe aureo-tincto, antennis nigris ; thorace 

 viridi-aeneo vel aureo, lateribus intus profunde excavato- 

 punctatis, disco laevi ; elytris thorace latioribus, parallelis, 

 apicem versus vix ampliatis, convexis, infra basin et prope 

 medium transversim foveolatis, punctato-striatis, pone medium 

 tenuiter confuse punctatis, viridi-aeneis, dimidio postico 

 fulvo. 

 Var. A. Elytris viridi-seneis, apice extremo fulvo. 

 Long. 6 — 10 lin. 

 Hab. New Guinea, Salwatty. 



Head and thorax similar in form and sculpture to the preceding 

 species, with the exception of a short longitudinal groove, which 

 is placed just in front of the middle of the basal iTiargin of the 

 thorax. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel in the S » slightly 

 dilated posteriorly in the J ; anterior disk regularly punctate- 

 striate, hinder disk finely and irregularly punctured ; on the ante- 

 rior disk, just below the basilar space, is a broad transverse row i 

 of deeply excavated fovete, extending from the outer border two- 



