of New Phytophaga. 617 



base to apex, anterior and posterior angles produced, acute ; above 

 smooth and shining, remotely punctured, the puncturing finer than 

 that on the head ; on either side, immediately in front of the 

 hinder angle, is a large, deep fovea ; disc more or less stained with 

 rufo-fuscous, on its middle is a large transverse, somewhat irre- 

 gular black patch, which varies somewhat in size ; in some speci- 

 mens, a short distance behind the hinder angles of the patch, is 

 a small piceous spot. Scutellum broadly triangular, punctate. 

 Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, about four times its 

 length, sides slightly narrowed from their base towards their 

 apex ; surface deeply but not very closely punctured. Body 

 beneath clothed with coarse fulvous hairs ; last abdominal seg- 

 ment impressed with a deep fovea ; intermediate pair of thighs 

 stained with a piceous patch on their anterior surface. 



Genus Phyllocharis, Dalm. 

 1 . Phyllocharis apicalis. 



Elongata, parallela, convexa, caeruleo-nigra, nitida; elytris ob- 

 scure caeruleis, horum apice, capite, thorace abdomineqne 

 (hujus disco excepto) rufo-fulvis ; an tennis nigris. 



Long. 5| lin. 



Hab. Dorey, New Guinea. Collected by Mr. Wallace. 



Elongate, convex, parallel, blue-black, nitidous ; head, thorax, 

 limb and apical segments of abdoinen, together with the pos- 

 terior third of the elytra rufo-fulvous ; the remaining portion 

 of the latter obscure metallic-blue. Head smooth, epistome 

 depressed, separated from the face by an angular groove, just 

 above the apex of which is a large deep fovea, from which a 

 longitudinal groove runs upwards to the vertex ; antennae rather 

 longer than half the body, black. Thorax nearly twice as broad 

 as long, moderately convex, smooth, impunctate, with the ex- 

 ception of four parallel foveae placed two together on either side 

 the disc. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, the sides pa- 

 rallel, apex subacutely rounded ; above convex, shoulders slightly 

 prominent, excavated and concave on the outer side below the 

 shoulder, each elytron impressed with about ten indistinct rows of 

 punctures, the first very short ; the rows are entirely lost on the 

 posterior third of the surface, which is irregularly punctured ; the 

 spaces between the striee (more especially on the outer disc) are 

 impressed with punctures equal in d?pth and size to those be- 

 longing to the rows themselves, rendering the latter still more 

 difficult to define ; the species, however, doubtless varies greatly 

 in the force and depth of the punctation, one of my specimens 



