174 Mr. J. S. Baly's Monograph of the 



two basal, three above the middle, four just below, and two sub- 

 apical, forming four transverse bands. 



From Moreton Bay. 



A single specimen in my own Collection. 



II. Elytra blue or black, with fulvous marliings. 



Sp. 4. Phyllodiaris cijanipennis, n. sp. (Plate XIV. fig. 1.) 



Oblonga, cyanea, nitida ; capite, thorace, maculisque quatuor 

 elytrorum fulvis. 



Long. 4g lin. 



Oblong, shining blue ; head, thorax and two spots on each 

 elytron fulvous. Five basal joints of antennae blue, the rest black. 

 Thorax narrowly margined, transverse-quadrate, twice as broad 

 as long, broader in front, anterior margin concave, and together 

 with the anterior angles slightly thickened, sides in front convex, 

 narrowed and nearly parallel behind; disc smooth, remotely 

 punctured, base coarsely punctured on each side, near the side 

 is a large irregular depression : a dark fuscous patch arises from 

 the base, and extends more or less across the disc (in some 

 specimens it is entirely obsolete). Scutellum smooth. Elytra 

 rather wider than the thorax, nearly four times its length, sides 

 nearly parallel in front, slightly hollowed behind the shoulder, 

 gradually rounded beyond their middle, surface irregularly punc- 

 tate-striate; on the shoulder is a large subquadrate fulvous spot, 

 deeply emarginate within, extending from the external margin 

 nearly to the scutellum; on the outer margin of the elytron, just 

 before its apex, is a second spot, smaller and subtriangular. 

 Beneath blue; the head, thorax and apex of abdomen fulvous. 



Port Essington. 



In the Collections of the British Museum, Mr. Waterhouse 

 and myself. 



This insect at first sight appears to be merely a variety of the 

 following ; it ditfers, however, in the puncturing, which is coarser, 

 and in the shape of the humeral spot ; the latter in nigricornis 

 is narrower, placed obliquely on the shoulder, and often divided 

 into two. 



