Australian Phytophaga. 385 
obscure rufo-piceous ; labrum rufous; thorax twice as 
broad at the base as long; sides rounded and converg- 
ing from base to apex; surface finely and subremotely 
punctured, covered with adpressed white hairs ; basal 
lobe slightly reflexed, its apex very feebly notched ; scu- 
tellum oblong, its apex acute ; elytra slightly broader at 
the base than the thorax, regularly punctate-striate ; 
interspaces plane, smooth, slightly convex towards the 
apex of the elytra, those near the outer border raised 
and subcostate for their whole length ; lower surface of 
abdomen and pygidium closely clothed with adpressed 
white pubescence, finely rugose-punctate ; pygidium as 
broad at its base as long; on its medial line is seen a 
faint longitudinal ridge. 
Ditropidus Duboulai. 
Oblongus, convexus, niger, nitidus, capite thoraceque 
cupreo-zneis, mandibulis apice, antennarum articulis sex 
basalibus subtus, femoribus anticis subtus, tibiis anticis 
apice, labroque obscure rufo-fulvis, thorace crebre sed 
tenuissime strigoso-punctato, basi linea brevi transversa 
impresso; elytris obscure viridi-eneis, subfortiter striato- 
punctatis, interstitis leviter convexis, transversim ru- 
gulosis. 
Long. | hn. 
Hab.—Champion Bay. 
Head remotely and very finely punctured, clothed with 
long griseous hairs; six lower joints of antennee obscure 
rufous, stained above with black, the remaining joints 
entirely black; apex of jaws also rufous; thorax slightly 
broader than the elytra; sides rounded, nearly straight 
and parallel at the base, obliquely converging from the 
middle to the apex; basal lobe shghtly reflexed, sepa- 
rated from the disc by a slight but well-defined transverse 
groove; disc very finely “punctur ed, somewhat closely 
covered with faintly impressed, longitudinal strie; elytra 
half as long again as the thorax, distinctly punctate- 
striate, interspaces on the inner disc obsoletely, those on 
the outer disc distinctly convex, transversely rugulose. 
Ditropidus strigosus. 
Breviter oblongus, obscure cupreus, pube adpresso 
albido dense vestitus, femoribus tibusque fulvis, piceo 
