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capite fortiter (antice sat crebre postice sat sparsim) punc- 
tulato ; prothorace subvelutino subopaco haud_perspicue 
sculpturato, longitudine latitudini equali, subcylindrico (sed 
lateribus leviter arcuatis); elytris crebre grosse rugulose 
(prope apicem minus crebre minus grosse) punctulatis. 
Long., 4 41.; lat., 12 1. 
The elytral markings are not much like those of any other 
species known to me; the elevated ivory-like lines are of a pale 
yellow color and are placed on patches of brighter yellow than 
themselves and of similar shape. If the yellow color be taken as 
the ground, the blackish markings are (a) a large basal patch not 
quite touching the lateral margins and interrupted at the suture 
(6) a mark resembling the letter L (reversed on the left elytron) ; 
regarding the yellow color as the markings the head of the insect 
must be towards the observer to produce the effect of a yellow L, 
which is then seen on what appears to be the left elytron, that 
on the right elytron being then reversed (c) a patch covering the 
whole of about the apical quarter of the elytra. 
N. Queensland ; in the collection of Mr. French. 
PHYTOPHAGA. 
(Tribe) EUPODA. 
CHEILOXENA. 
C. insignis, sp.nov. Subelongata ; minus opaca ; fusca, antennis 
pedibusque rufescentibus, elytrorum tuberculis nigris ; pilis 
brevibus albidis sat sparsim (his hic illic in elytris maculatim 
condensatis) vestita; prothorace sat transverso vix crebre 
punctulato, lateribus dentatis ; elytris sat crebre vix seria- 
tim tuberculatis; antennarum articulis’ 8°—10° brevibus 
submoniliformibus. Long., 4—431.; lat., 14—2 1. 
Readily distinguishable from C. Westewoodi, Baly, inter alia by 
the short submoniliform joints 8—10 of its antenne and the 
whitish hair-like scales of its surface which are condensed on the 
elytra to form rather conspicuous spots some of them considerably 
larger than any of the yellowish spots on the elytra of Westewoodi , 
also by the much more numerous and confusedly arranged 
tubercles of its elytra. Differs also from C. Hrenche, Blackb., by 
the presence of lateral prothoracic teeth. 
Victoria and N.S. Wales ; on Eucalyptus. 
(Tribe) GALERUCIDES. 
In M. Lacordaire’s classification this “tribe” forms the last 
section of the family Phytophaga. It is very numerously repre- 
sented in Australia but up to the present time comparatively few 
of its Australian species have been described and named, and 
