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mentioned, so that there is nothing to indicate the sex of the 

 type ; if really a Gdajptera it probably has well-defined charac- 

 ters in the abdomen and legs. 



Phypnocolaspis, n. g. 



Eyts lateral, subreniform, moderately faceted. Clypeus 

 subtriangular, lateral sutures distinct. Labrum very short. 

 Antennae not very long, second joint short. Palpi short. 

 Prothorax transverse, base bisinuate, sides widely margined 

 and conspicuously dilated to base, apical angles produced for- 

 wards. Scuttlluni semicircular. Elytra not narrower than 

 base of prothorax. Frosternum with medisternum rather wide 

 at base and apex, but encroached upon by coxae, front edge 

 conspicuously elevated and separated from episterna by a notch 

 on each side ; episternum on each side with front margin gently 

 rounded. Metasternum elongate. Jjegs moderately long; 

 front femora dentate; tibiae not longitudinally canaliculate, 

 and not notched near outer apex ; claws appendiculate. 



The type of latihasis was standing with the Eumolpides 

 in the Blackburn collection ; nor can I see that it can be 

 referred to any other subfamily. The conspicuously appen- 

 diculate terminal joint of antennae, pronotum with a wide 

 transverse impression near base, the shape of the prosternum, 

 abdomen entirely concealed from above, tarsi with third joint 

 bilobed to base, and the appendiculate claws exclude it, by 

 various combinations, from all other subfamilies than the 

 Eumolpides. Certainly in that subfamily the genus does not 

 appear to have any close Australian ally, but I can find no 

 character to exclude it. From some directions the claws 

 appear to be simple, but they really have a fairly large basal 

 appendix. On lafihasis the sides of the prothorax are con- 

 spicuously and evenly dilated from apex to base, the base 

 itself being slightly wider than the elytra. On submetallica 

 the sides are dilated from apex to near base, but are then 

 rounded off, so that the base is the exact width of the base 

 of elytra (these also having each shoulder rounded off). They 

 are both entirely glabrous on the upper-surface. Typical 

 species, latihasis. 



Prypnocolaspis latihasis, n. sp. 



PI. \nii., figs. 93 and 100; pi. viii., fig. 170. 



Of a rather dingy-fiavous ; under-surface lightly infus- 

 cated, five apical joints of antennae (wholly or in parts), tips 

 of palpi, and parts of tarsi, more or less blackish. 



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