40 Mr. J. S. Baly on new Genera 
ovata infra callum humerale, plaga magna cuneiformi communi, 
a basi ad longe pone medium producta, alteraque oblonga, obliqua, 
pone medium posita, intus ad suturam adfixa cyaneis; scutello 
nigro. 
Long. 33 lin. 
Hab. Australia, Rockhampton. 
Antenne moderately robust, more than half the length of 
the body; second joint short, third and fourth equal, ovate, 
each one half longer than the second. Thorax twice as broad 
as long; sides straight and parallel, rounded and converging 
at the apex, anterior angles obtuse; upper surface excavated 
on either side at the base, the excavations deeply punctured ; 
disk smooth, impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, 
oblong, less acutely rounded at the apex than in the preceding 
species. 
Fam. Gallerucide. 
Subfam. HALTICIN2. 
Genus NIPHRAA. 
Corpus subelongatum, modice convexum. Caput modice exsertum ; 
antennis filiformibus, 11-articulatis ; oculis prominulis, integris ; 
encarpis contiguis; carina oblonga. Thorax transversus, basi 
transversim truncatus, disco ante basin sulco transverso, utrinque | 
ad marginem lateralem extenso, impressus. Hlytra thorace multo 
latiora, oblonga, punctato-striata, pube sericea sat dense vestita. 
Pedes simplices ; femoribus posticis incrassatis ; tibeis apice spina 
tieuta armatis ; tarsis posticis ad tibie apicem insertis ; ungui- 
culis appendiculatis. Prosternum angustatum ; aéetabulis anticis 
apertis. 
Type Niphrea hirtipennis. 
Closely allied to T’richaltica, but separated from that genus 
by the transverse groove of the thorax, which in the present 
case extends entirely across the base of the thorax. 
Niphrea hirtipennis. 
N. subelongata, modice convexa, fulva, nitida, antennis extrorsum 
nigro-piceis, pectore, abdomine (apice excepto) elytrisque nigris ; 
his pube griseo-argentea sat dense vestitis, granuloso-rugulosis, 
subopacis, fortiter punctato-striatis, limbo exteriore, apice am- 
pliato, fulvo. 
Long. 2-23 lin. 
Hab, Lake Nyassa. 
Vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpz subpyriform, contigu- 
ous ; antenne nearly half the length of the body, third joint 
