01- ATJSTEALIAN PHYTOPHAGOUS BEETLES. 475 



hulls anticis apertis. Mesosternum transversum. Metasternum 

 apice immarginato, lateribus linea impressa instructis. 



Type Paralepta foveicollis. 



This genus is intermediate between Galomela, Hope {Australica, 

 Chevr.), and Carystea, mihi : in the toothed claw it agrees with 

 the former ; in the narrow elongate form and in the emarginate 

 apex of the metasternum with the latter ; it differs from both in 

 the crenulate lateral border of the thorax. 



Paealepta rovEicoLLis. Elongata, parallela, subcylindrica, 

 nitida, subtus obscure nigro-senea; supra obscure viridi-fenea, 

 cupreo-violaceo nitens, anteunis (basi piceo excepto) nigris ; 

 thorace modice convexo, ad latera dense, disco minus crebre, 

 foveolato-punctato, interspatiis rude elevato-reticulatis ; lateribus 

 irregulariter sed leviter crenulatis ; elytris sat crebre striatim 

 punctatis, interspatiis leviter rugulosis, ad apicem leviter vittatis. 

 Long. 4-5 lin. 



Hah. New South "Wales. 



Head closely rugose-punctate ; afitennae slender, four lower 

 joints obscure piceous, the rest black. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long; sides straight and nearly parallel from their base to beyond 

 the middle, thence rounded and converging to the apex, the 

 anterior angle slightly produced, acute ; lateral margin irregularly 

 crenulate * ; upper surface moderately convex, closely covered on 

 the sides, more distantly so on the middle disk, with large, deep, 

 foveolate punctures ; interspaces nitidous, elevate-reticulate ; disk 

 ■with several distinctly raised, irregular, impunctate patches. 

 Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, parallel ; above convex, 

 very slightly excavated below the base, aciculate-punctate, the 

 punctures closely arranged in longitudinal rows, those on the 

 inner disk geminate ; interspaces rugulose, transversely strigose 

 before the middle, elevated into faint vittse towards the apex. 



Family GALLEEUCIDiE. 



Subfamily Halticin^- 



Grenus Plattcepha. 



Corpus elongate -ovatum, convexum. Caput subtrigonatum, 

 inter oculos planum ; antennis ad caput cum thorace vix sequi- 



* These crenulations vary in degree, and are occasionally almost entirely 

 •vranting. 



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