58 MARTIN JACOBY 
small but distinctly raised; lower part of face testaceous; palpi 
strongly incrassate at the penultimate joint; antennae slender, 
the second joint half the length of the third, all the joints 
sparingly covered with hairs; thorax narrowly transverse, sub- 
quadrate, the disc transversely depressed; scutellum rather large; 
elytra very finely wrinkled and punctured, covered with thin 
but rather long whitish pubescence, testaceous, each elytron 
with an obscure fuscous longitudinal band, narrowed at the 
middle and placed close to the sutural margin; their epipleurae 
wanting; legs long and slender; tibiae unarmed; the first joint 
of the posterior tarsi as long as the two following joints 
together; claws appendiculate; anterior coxal cavities open. 
Hab. Java, Tcibodas, October (Beccari). 
The elytral bands are very obsolete and disappear sometimes 
entirely below the middle. 
27. Phyllobrotica bifasciata, n. sp. 
Testaceous; antennae nearly as long as the body; thorax 
transversely depressed, finely punctured; elytra finely and 
closely punctured, a broad transverse band at the base and 
another near the apices, blackish blue. 
Length 3 °/,-4 lines. 
Head finely but not very closely punctured with a narrow 
longitudinal central groove; the frontal tubercles broad, limited 
behind by a rather deep transverse groove which does not 
quite extend to the eyes; the anterior margin of the clypeus 
nearly straight; palpi thickened; antennae as long as the body 
in the male, shorter in the female imsect, testaceous all the 
joints with the exception of the second very elongate and slender; 
thorax transverse the anterior margin concave, the sides roun- 
ded before the middle, the surface with a deep transverse groove, 
not extending to the sides, finely punctured; scutellum trigo- 
nate, its apex obtusely rounded, fulvous; elytra closely and 
finely punctured, the metallic bluish bands interrupted at the 
middle by a broad testaceous band, slightly widened at the 
