Australian Species of Chrysnmela, Phyllocharis, i^c. 181 



articulo ultimo conico. Thorax transverso-quadratus vel 

 transversus, elytris angustior, lateribus subrectis. Ebjtra 

 oblongo-ovata vel oblonga. Pedes simplices, unguiculis den- 

 tatis. Corpus obscurum vel metallicum, elongatum. 



This genus approaches very near to Phralora, but in the latter 

 the second joint of the antennaj is as long as the third, and the 

 third joint of the tarsi is more or less deeply bilobed ; several 

 of the species of C/ialcolampra, although of larger size, have a 

 very strong resemblance to our Phratora vitellines ; the genus has 

 been characterized by Hombrom and Jacquinot in the Voyage 

 au Pole Sud. Several species had been previously described by 

 Germar and Erichson, to one of which, ncervnla, Germ., the type 

 of Homb. and Jacq. has been referred with doubt ; their descrip- 

 tion being too short and imperfect to enable me to decide with 

 certainty. 



Promechus ceneus of Boisduval, Voyage de TAstrolabe, pro- 

 bably belongs to this genus, but the description is too slight to 

 be of the least use in determining the species. 



I. Elytra much wider than the thorax, 

 Sp. 1. Chalcolampra pustulata, n. sp. (Plate XIV. fig. 6.) 

 Elongata, convexa, picea; elytris oblongo-ovatis, thorace fortiter 

 punctato, lateribus antice tuberculatis, fulvis ; elytris irregu- 

 lariter fortiterque punctato-striatis, singulo tuberculis elevaiis 

 1 1, pallide fulvis. 

 Long. 4 lin. 



Elongate ; elytra oblong ovate, convex, wider than the thorax, 

 pitchy brown. Head shining, clypeus separated from the face by 

 a deep semicircular groove, moutli and seven basal joints of an- 

 tennae fulvous. 'I'horax subquadrate, scarcely broader than long, 

 sides and front nearly straight; surface coarsely and irregularly 

 punctured; on the edge, just behind the anterior angle, is a raised 

 smooth tubercle, which, together with the margin itself, is fulvous. 

 Elytra oblong-ovate, convex, much broader than tlic thorax and 

 nearly three times the length ; sides ovate, broader behind, apex 

 obtusely rounded ; surface coarsely and irregularly piuictate- 

 striate ; the raised margin and about eleven smooth shining tuber- 

 cles, scattered over the disc and along the edge of each elytron, 

 pale fulvous. Legs fulvous, thighs darker. 



Melbourne. 



I have seen but two specimens of this species, one in my own 

 cabinet, the other in the British Museum. 



