162 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of 



obsolete ; ely tris tenuiter pimctato - striatis, interstitiis 

 Isevibus. 



Long. 1 lin. 



Hah. — Shanghai (Lewis). 



Encarpse not defined ; carina linear, slightly raised ; eyes 

 large, black; vertex smooth, impunctate ; antennse with the 

 2nd joint two-thirds the length of the 1st ; 3rd and 4th equal, 

 each rather longer than the 2nd ; three lower joints fulvous ; 

 4th and 5th piceous, the rest black. Thorax two-thirds 

 broader than long ; sides parallel, slightly rounded, anterior 

 angles obliquely truncate ; above convex, smooth and 

 shining, minutely and remotely punctured. Scutellum 

 smooth, seraiovate. Elytra much broader than the 

 thorax, finely punctate-striate ; interspaces smooth, each 

 with a single row of very fine punctures, only visible under 

 a deep lens. 



Crepidodera parallela. 



Elongata, parallela, fulva, nitida, antennis extrorsum 

 piceis, pedibus elytrisque infuscatis, his leneo vix mican- 

 tibus, subdepressis, infra basin transversim excavatis, for- 

 titer punctato-striatis ; thorace Itevi, basi sulco profundo, 

 utrinque abbreviate, fortiter punctate, instructo. 



Long. 1§ lin. 



Hab. — Sydney. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate; front coarsely punctured 

 on either side within the eye ; encarpee contiguous ; carina 

 elongate, its apex hastate ; antennae more than half the 

 length of the body, four lower joints picee-fulveus, the rest 

 nigro-piceeus. Thorax one-third broader than long at 

 the base; sides slightly diverging and slightly sinuate 

 from the base to beyond the middle, thence rounded and 

 converging to the apex; anterior angles thickened, curved 

 slightly outwards, broadly truncate ; hinder angles nearly 

 rectangular, acute ; sides smooth, nearly impunctate, basal 

 groove abbreviated on either side at some distance from 

 the lateral margin, deeply and coarsely punctate. Elytra 

 impressed below the basilar space and also within the 

 humeral callus, the latter thickened; surface strongly 

 punctate-striate, interspaces smooth, impunctate. 



Crepidodera vestita. 



Elongata, subcylindrica, flava, nitida, antennis extror- 

 sum abdomineque piceis; thorace sat remote, fortiter 



