Australian Species of Chrysomela, Phyllocharis, SjC. 249 



slightly sinuate below the shoulders, the apex rounded ; surface 

 regularly punctate-striate, each stria composed of a single row of 

 impressions, interstices obsoletely raised, subconvex. Beneath 

 pale fulvous ; knees, apex of tibiae and the tarsi black. 



North or north-west coast of Australia, Mr. Bynoe. 



Two specimens in the British Museum and a third in the Col- 

 lection of Mr. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 11. Australka crassicornis, (Vah.) 



Oblonga, convexa, pallide fulva, capite macula thoracisque fasciis 

 duabus transversis, lined longitudinali connexis, nigris ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis, singulo maculd vittaque sinuatd nigris. 



Long. S—'Sl lin. 



Chrysomela crassiconns, Fab. Syst. Ent. 99, n. 27 ; Spec. Ins., 

 i. 122, n. 38; Ent. Syst., i. 321, n. 69; 

 Syst. Eleuth., i. 437, n. 94. 



Gonioctena sinuata, Dej. Cat. Col,, edit. 3, 427. 



Var. A. Capite thoraceque immaculatis, elytris pallide flavis, 

 maculis duabus nigris, posteriore majori oblonga. 



Oblong, convex, pale fulvous. Head closely punctured in 

 front, smooth behind ; a frontal patch, the antenna; (their four 

 or five basal joints sometimes excepted), and the palpi, black. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the lateral margins 

 rounded and narrowed in front ; the disc distantly, sides coarsely 

 punctured, on the surface are two short black transverse fascia?, 

 the first on the anterior margin, the other broader and concave 

 in front, at the base, the two are united by a narrow vertical 

 line the same colour. ScutcUum smooth, impunctate. Elytra 

 scarcely wider than the thorax, more than three times its length, 

 the sides^parallel in front; surface punctate-striate, on each is a 

 subtriangular spot near the scutellum, and an irregular sinuous 

 vitta, black ; the latter, commencing at the humeral callus, extends 

 nearly to the apex of the elytron, it is much broader behind, and 

 frequently interrupted in its middle. Beneath fulvous, sides of 

 the breast and the abdomen stained with piceous ; legs black, the 

 base of the thighs and more or less of the tibiaj fulvous, 



Var. A. Pale fulvous, six terminal joints of antennae and 



two spots on each elytron black. 

 Moreton Bay, Mr. Gibbon. 



