and Species of Phytophagous Beetles. 381 



Itevi, irapunctato ; elytris nigro-piceis, apicem versus obscure 

 flavis, teuuiter punctato-striatis, punctis linearibus ; interspatiis 

 planis, impunctatis. 

 Long. I lin. 



Hah. Northern Australia. 



Head minutely granulose-punctate, sparingly clothed with 

 very fine adpressed white hairs ; face plane ; anterior edge of 

 clypeus subangulate-emarginate ; eyes distant ; six outer joints 

 of antennae moderately thickened, black. Thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long ; sides obliquely converging and slightly 

 rounded from base to apex ; basal margin distinctly bisinuate 

 on either side, median lobe moderately produced ; upper sur- 

 face smooth and impunctate. Scutellum ovate, acuminate. 

 Elytra very finely punctate-striate ; interspaces plane, im- 

 punctate ; strige near the outer margin very faintly sulcate. 



Ditropidus Pascoei. 



D. ovatus, valde convexus, niger, nitidus, capita thoraceque rufo- 

 testaceis, antennis (basi excepta) nigro-piceis, pedibus piceis, 

 anticis quatuor pallidioribus ; thorace minute aciciilato-punctato ; 

 elytris nigro-cyaneis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis ; interspatiis 

 planis, duobus externis ad apicem leviter convexiusculis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. Melbourne, Australia. 



Head glabrous, subremotely punctured ; vertex impressed 

 with a longitudinal groove ; eyes distant ; antenntE less than 

 half the length of the body, five outer joints slightly thickened, 

 nigro-piceous. Thorax -rather more than twice as broad as 

 long ; sides rounded and converging from base to apex ; basal 

 margin bisinuate on either side, the median lobe only mode- 

 rately produced, obtusely angulate j upper surface subremotely 

 aciculate-punctate, the punctures rather coarser and more 

 crowded on the sides. Scutellum narrowly ovate, its apex 

 acute. Elytra rather strongly punctate-striate ; interspaces 

 plane, here and there faintly wrinkled ; two outer interspaces 

 obsoletely convex. 



Ditropidus elegantulus. 



D. breviter ovatus, valde convexus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus, thoracis 

 margine basali antennisque (barum basi excepta) nigris, tarsis 

 piceis ; capitis vertice, scutello elytrisque obscure cupreis ; his 

 punctato-striatis, punctis linearibus ; interspatiis planis, duobus 

 externis subcostatis. 



Mas mandibulis sat magnis, abrupte curvatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



