and Species of Phytophagous Beetles. 381 



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

 flavis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, punctis linearibus ; interspatiis 

 fjlanis, impunctatis. 

 Long. I lin. 



Hob. 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 antennse 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 ; stria3 near the outer margin very faintly sulcate. 



Ditropidus Pascoei. 



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

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

 anticis quatuor pallidioribus ; thorace minute aciculato-pimctato ; 

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

 planis, duobus externis ad apicem leviter convexiuseulis. 



Long. -S- 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 ; 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, valdo convexus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus, thoracis 

 margino basali antennisquc (hanim basi excepta) nigris, tarsis 

 piceis ; capitis verticc, scutcllo elytrisque obscure cupreis ; his 

 punctato-striatis, punctis linearibus ; interspatiis planis, duobus 

 externis subcostatis. 



Mas mandibuHs sat magnis, abruptc curvatis. 



Long. 1 T lin. 



