300 



Jlab. — Western Australia: Cunderdin. Type, 8233 in'. 

 Western Australian Museum; co-type, I. 5758, in South 

 Australian Museum. 



The colour as described for the type applies also to three 

 other males, except that on one of them the head is somewhat 

 purplish; one female is coppery-green, another is purplish- 

 blue, and another male is purple; the two latter specimens in 

 some lights appear to be of exactly the same shade of colour. 

 There is a small point with two long setae between the claws, 

 representing an onychium, but it is much less conspicuous 

 than on Diphiicejikala. 



Phyllotocidium ptctum, n. sp. 



PL xxxii., fig. 2. 



Head (labrum black), prothorax (margins narrowly 

 flavous), and scutellum dark metallic-green, elytra flavous, 

 suture, margins, base (narrowly), and apex purplish, under- 

 surf ace and pygidium black, with a purplish glcss ; antennae, 

 palpi, and legs (tibiae more or less green) flavous. Under- 

 surface and legs with rather long white or whitish hairs, a 

 few similar hairs en sides of prothorax and of elytra. 



Head with rather dense, well-defined punctures, flat 

 between eyes; clypeus convex in middle, suture well defined, 

 punctures smaller than on base of head; labrum about half 

 the width of base of clypeus. Prothorax moderately trans- 

 verse, all angles acute, sides somewhat dilated from apex to 

 middle and gently incurved between same and base ; 

 punctures slightly larger and not quite so crowded as on head 

 between eyes. ScuteMum semicircularly triangular, punctures 

 as on pronotum. Elytra no wider than prothorax at base, 

 sides somewhat dilated to middle, apex truncate ; with not 

 very dense and irregularly-distributed punctures of small or 

 moderate size; subsutural stria on each elytron distinct, the 

 others rather feeble. Pygidium with punctures as on pro- 

 notum. Hind coxae as long- as two basal segments of 

 abdomen combined, hind femora stout, hind tarsi about as 

 long as femora and tibiae combined, claws almost as long as 

 their supporting joint ; front tibiae acutely produced at apex, 

 slightly longer than tarsi, middle tibiae slightly shorter than 

 tarsi; four front tarsi each with two long white membranous 

 appendages between the claws, these strongly curved and 

 distinctly shorter than the hind ones. Length, 5-5} mm. 



II ah. — Western Australia: Cunderdin (Western Austra- 

 lian Museum, No. 8232). Type, I. 5763. 



The remarkable appendages to the four front tarsi (prob- 

 ably absent from the female) are evidence that this species 



