NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 115 
very broad, obsoletely impressed; elytra closely punctured, co- 
vered with very short but dense pubescence. 
Length 4!/, lines. 
Head with a distinct central longitudinal groove, densely 
pubescent, the punctuation not visible; the frontal tubercles 
narrow, the clypeus in shape of a triangular ridge, fulvous as 
well as the labrum, the latter with some deep punctures; the 
jaws and the palpi piceous, the latter slender; antennae thicke- 
ned at the base, narrowed at the terminal joints, covered with 
pubescence, like the rest of the upper surface, the third and > 
the following joints of nearly equal length and extending to 
half the length of the body; thorax about three times as broad 
as long, the sides rounded, narrowed near the anterior angles, 
the anterior and posterior margin parallel, the disc with a 
central longitudinal groove, the sides with one or two irregular 
depressions ; scutellum with its apex broadly rounded; elytra 
convex , scarcely broader at the base than the thorax, closely 
pubescent, the surface somewhat rugose-punctate; tibiae unar- 
med; claws bifid; anterior coxal cavities closed. 
Hab. New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D’Albertis). A single 
specimen. 
The metallic dark blue colour of the upper surface in this 
species is greatly obscured by the thin but dense yellowish grey 
pubescence, which covers the entire surface of the elytra. 
M. nigrocoerulea seems to be allied to M. viridis Duvivier from 
the Philippine islands. 
105. Candezea bimaculata, n. sp. 
Oblong, flavous; the breast and the four posterior femora, 
black ; thorax scarcely visibly punctured; elytra flavous, the 
basal portion black, surrounding a flavous spot, surface minutely 
punctured and obsoletely costate. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head impunctate, with a shallow groove between the eyes, 
the frontal tubercles very narrow; antennae slender, filiform, 
