NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA ae 
51. Sastra fasciata, n. sp. 
Testaceous; antennae, tibiae and tarsi piceous or black; head 
and thorax fulvous, impunctate; elytra metallic purplish or 
blue, a broad transverse band at the middle fulvous. 
Length 4 lines. 
Head rather convex, impunctate with a thin central longitu- 
dinal groove; clypeus narrow, thickened, its anterior margin 
straight; palpi robust, piceous; antennae two thirds the length 
of the body, piceous or black, the two basal joints rather lighter, 
the third jomt very long and the longest; thorax more than 
twice as broad as long, the anterior margin concave, the po- 
sterior one straight, the sides subangulate at the middle, the 
angles tuberculiform, the anterior ones furnished with a single 
hair, the surface with two broad lateral and a narrower longi- 
tudinal depression, impunctate; scutellum fulvous; elytra nearly 
parallel, the sides with a broad longitudinal depression and a 
more or less distinctly raised longitudinal costa, very finely and 
rather closely punctured, metallic purplish or dark blue, the 
fulvous band broad and more or less widened at the suture and 
extending to the lateral margin; the femora fulvous, the knees, 
tibiae and tarsi piceous; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as 
long as the three following joints together; claws bifid. 
Hab. New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D’Albertis). Ramoi (Bec- 
carl). 
52. Prasyptera unifasciata, n. sp. 
Fulvous; vertex of the head, antennae, tibiae and tarsi black; 
thorax finely punctured, transversely grooved; elytra closely 
and finely punctate, metallic green a transverse narrow band 
before the middle, fulvous. 
Var. Head entirely black; elytra without fulvous band. 
Length 3-4 lines. 
Head impunctate at the vertex; clypeus fulvous with a lon- 
gitudinal central ridge; labrum and jaws black; antennae of 
