NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA or 
25. Aulacophora affinis ? Monrr. 
The description given by this author agrees nearly with the 
specimens obtained at Somerset, Australia by Mr. L. M. D’Al- 
bertis, but as there are several very closely allied forms inha- 
biting that country and the Malayan Islands, I am not able to 
say with certainty, whether I am rightly referring the Austra- 
lian specimens to the type of Montrouzier. The insects before me 
are of a pale testaceous colour, the mouth and the palpi are 
black ; the antennae thin and slender, also black, the basal 
joints sometimes stained with fulvous below and evidently of the 
same structure in both sexes; the thorax and the elytra may 
be said to be impunctate and the latter have a transverse black 
band at the base and another below the middle, both of which 
extend to the lateral margin, but the posterior band is inter- 
rupted at the extreme apices of the elytra which remain of the 
ground colour (Montrouzier makes no mention of this); the under- 
side and the anterior femora are testaceous, the anterior tibiae 
and tarsi and the posterior legs as well as the upper side of 
the pygidium are black; Montrouzier says nothing about the black 
pygidium nor the similarly coloured posterior legs, but this he 
may have overlooked; it is certain that these characters are 
constant in the dozend specimens before me. A. dorsalis is a 
closely allied species in which the pygidium is also black, but 
the antennae are fulvous and the elytra have a narrow central 
transverse band dividing the black portion which always extends 
to the extreme apices. 
26. Phyllobrotica javana, n. sp. 
Pale testaceous, head fulvous, impunctate; thorax narrow, 
transversely depressed, impunctate; elytra finely rugose, sparingly 
pubescent, the disc with a longitudinal obscure fuscous band. 
Length 1 '/, line. 
Head broad, the vertex fulvous, impunctate ; frontal tubercles 
