BY W. MACLEAY, ESQ., F.L.S. 187 



reddish yellow hair beneath. Thorax more sinuate on the sides 

 than in the last species, and with the costae more elevated — the 

 median costae almost reaching the base. Scutellum broad and 

 lanciform. Elytra punctured in rows with the alternate inter- 

 stices strongly costate at the base and towards the apex inter- 

 rupted and formed of tubercles, and with the others marked with 

 elongate tubercles of smaller size ; there is also near the humeral 

 angle a rugose tuberosity and a short elevated costiform line. 

 Fore tibijB obtusely toothed in the middle and roundly and not 

 prominently at the apex. 



362.— LiPAROCHRUS scuLPTiLis, Westw. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Land. 2nd Ser. II., page 70. 



Sub-family Melolonthid.^. 



363. — Phtllotocus navicularis, Blanch. Cat. Coll. 

 Ent, 1850, page 97. 



364. — Phyllotocus sericeus. n. sp. 

 Length 3^ lines. 



Head black, finely punctate. Thorax red very sparingly 

 punctured and fringed with erect black hairs. Elytra red with 

 a narrow black lateral margin, silky, separately rounded and 

 dehiscent at the apex, strongly striate with the interstices 

 rounded, and furnished along the lateral border, the suture, and 

 the interstices between the strias with erect black somewhat 

 distant hairs. Body beneath and legs black and punctate, with 

 the exception of the prothorax and anterior coxae which are red. 



Of all the species of Phyllotocus hitherto described, this one 

 most resembles P. Australis Boisd. 



365. — Phyllotocus variicollis. n. sp. 

 Length 3| lines. 



Head black and punctate. Thorax punctate, thinly fringed 

 with black hairs, entirely black in the male and red with a cen- 



