Scutellerinse one? Graphosomin». 37 



Var. a (typical). — Duke of York's Island {coll. Dist.). 



Yar. h. — Pronotum wholly black, excepting lateral areas. 

 Solomon Islands. 



Var. c. — As in var. a, but with the legs wholly cyaneous. 

 Solomon Islands. 



Var. d. — Wholly purplish black above, but with the posterior 

 lateral marginal ochraceous coloration to the pronotum. 

 Femora ochraceous, with their apices cyaneous. Solomon 

 Islands. 



Var. e. — Wholly purplish black above. Femora ochraceous, 

 their apices concolorous. New Britain. 



PJiilia Woodfordi, sp. n. 



Bright metallic bronzy green ; head, lateral margins of 

 pronotum, and basal half of scutellum emerald-green ; central 

 lobe and basal margin of head, anterior marginal area of 

 pronotum, basal callosity, and two large fused spots on apical 

 area of scutellum purplish black ; extreme apex of scutellum 

 bronzy green. Body beneath emerald-green; areas of the 

 odoriferous apertures and basal margins of the abdominal 

 segments black. Coxae, trochanters and femora, and lateral 

 margins of the abdomen ochraceous. Antennse piceous, first 

 and second joints ochraceous ; rostrum piceous, basal joint 

 ochraceous. 



Pronotum and scutellum coarsely punctate ; abdomen be- 

 neath finely wrinkled and sparingly punctate, its ochraceous 

 lateral margin entire. 



Long. 11-12 millim. 



Hab. Solomon Islands {Woodford; Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Calliphara. 



Calliphara prasltma, Guer. (Scutellera), Voy. Goq., Ins. 

 pp. 158 & 160, pi. xi. fig. 3 (1830). 



Tetrarthria sobria, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 21. n. 10 (1867). 

 Tetrarthria niyra, Walk. loc. cit. p. 23. n. 16. 

 C'allidea ebenina, Walk. loc. cit. p 39. n. 52. 



Calliphara hifasc'iata. 



Callidea (Calliphara) bifasciata, White, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. 



p. 85 (1842). 

 Callidea quadrifera, Walker, Cat. Het. iii. p. 514 (1868). 



