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9 . Differs in having the head smaller, clypeus with a 

 conspicuous transverse carina, the tips less elevated, and the 

 space between them less incurved, legs shorter, front tarsi 

 much narrower, and abdomen more convex in middle, with 

 the long setae less conspicuous. 



Hab. — Queensland: Claudie River (J. A. Kershaw), 

 Coen River (H. Hacker, from C. French's collection). Types 

 in National Museum. 



An extremely beautiful species, in some respects close 

 to pulcherrima, but club black, no part of elytra reddish, and 

 front tarsi much wider ; from the variety of nitens with 

 purplish elytra it differs in being larger, elytral punctures 

 very different, and clothing of protnorax and head much 

 denser, etc. 



DlPHUCEPHALA NIGRITARSIS, n. sp. 



c* . Golden green, parts of upper-surface with a 

 reddish gloss, legs reddish-flavous, three or four apical joints 

 of tarsi and club of antennae black. Rather densely clothed 

 with depressed and moderately long setae, stramineous on 

 upper-surface, whitish elsewhere, but black on dark parts 

 of tarsi. 



Head with crowded, reticulate, shagreened punctures; 

 tips of clypeus strongly produced and rounded off, the notch 

 deep and wide. Prothorax rather strongly transverse, sides 

 acutely angular in middle, with a rather deep and wide 

 median depression narrowed to apex, with a deep curved 

 impression towards each side and almost traceable to middle ; 

 punctures much as on head. Scutellttm polished and (except 

 at base) impunctate. Elytra not much wider than prothorax, 

 shoulders rounded, each with two rather feeble discal costae; 

 with rather large and deep, sharply-defined punctures, many 

 of which are transversely confluent. Legs moderately long ; 

 front tarsi scarcely wider than middle ones. Length, 8 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Barrington Tops, January, 

 1916 (H. J. Carter). Type (unique), T. 6668. 



In general appearance close to ignota, but elytra with 

 punctures larger, the transverse arrangement more evident, 

 and the front tarsi much narrower; from nitidicollis , with 

 which it would be associated in Blackburn's table, it differs 

 in its much denser and otherwise different prothoracic punc- 

 tures, larger elytral ones, and in its more golden colour. The 

 elytral clothing (which has nowhere a linear tendency) is 

 rather sparser than elsewhere; the tip of the pygidium is 

 glabrous. 



Phyllotocidium bimaculiflavum, n. sp. 



<3 . Black, with a more or less purplish or brassy gloss; 

 sides of prothorax narrowly flavous with a metallic gloss, 



