BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1491 
The puncturation of the prothorax is strong and by no means 
sparse on the disc, and becomes close and extremely coarse on the 
sides. The punctures in the rows of the elytra are I'ather large 
and strong and somewhat quadrate in shape j the interstices are 
not convex, and are sparingly and very finely punctured. 
Allied to C. pallida, Baly, and geniculata, Baly, both of which, 
however, are narrow insects with the disc of the prothorax finely 
punctured, the former having the legs entirely testaceous and the 
latter ha^fing black knees. 
Chalcomela. 
C. ExiMiA, Baly. 
A few specimens agreeing very well with the description and 
figure of this insect were taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper near 
Palmerston (X. Terr.). Its precise habitat has not I think been 
known with certainty hitherto. 
Amphimela. 
A. Australis, sp.nov. 
Late ovalis ; vix perspicue punctulata ; nitida ; nigra ; pro- 
thorace latera vex-sus late testaceo ; antennis basi pedibusque plus 
minus picescentibus. [Bong. 1?, lat. ^ line (vix). 
The antennxe are scarcely so long as the head and prothoi’ax 
together, joint 1 long and stout, 2 subglobular, 3 slender and 
nearly as long as 1, 4-6 short, 7-11 much wider and foi'ming a 
cylindrical club. The antennse are inserted very far apart and 
close to the internal margin of the eyes. The head beai-s a longi- 
tudinal furrow on either side close within the eye, and an obscure 
median fovea. The eyes are large, rather coarsely granulated, 
and very convex. The prothorax is about three times as wide as 
long, very strongly convex transversely, narrower in front than 
behind, its anterior lateral portion consisting of a large tumid 
projecting lump which is cut oflf from the rest of the segment by a 
deep oblique sulcus ; the hind angles are obtuse, the base strongly 
