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ajiicales, obliqwi, suhohtecti. Oculi obloiigi. sulidorsales. Frons angusta, occiput 

 breve. Antennae prothoracis medium fere attingentes, articulo tertio duobus primis 

 simul sumtis multo longiore, primo subconico, 9^ — 11' fere aequilongis caeteris 

 crassioribus. Protborax conicus. Scutellum minutit^siinuni. Pro-stenuim retrorsum 

 gradatim elevatura ; coxae anticae aiiproxiuiatae elevatae postice perpendiculares. 

 Processus mesosternalis j)eri)endicularis, tatus, ajiice tuberculato-convexus. Metaster- 

 num convexum. Pygidium apicem versus levissime angustatum, apice truncatum, 

 angulis rotundatis. Pedes graciles, tarsis elongatis. 



Type: Altijjechm fasciatmn sp. nov. 



Male and female scarcely distinguishable. 



.•Mlied to Mycins Pasc, from which it may easily be distinguished by the 

 antennae being inserted at the a]jex of the rostrum. 



22. Altipectus fasciatum sp. nov. 



t? ? . A. nigrum, supra parum rufescens, dense luteo-griseo-jiubescens. Rostrum 

 jnolhorace plus quarta jiarte longius ; infra glalnum, j)arum punctnlatum, sulcis 

 lateralibns latis retrorsum inconspicue convergentibus. .■\ntennae nigro-lirunneae, 

 articulis duobus basalibus ruiis. Protborax vitta latendi ac dorso utrimque lineola 

 basali nigris omatus. Elytra singula duobus punctis post basalibus oblique dis[)Ositis, 

 in striis tertia et quinta sitis, fascia niarginali ab huniero ad medium descendente, 

 deinde versus sutiu'am flexa, suturam fere attingente, duobus punctis anteapicalibus, 

 anteriore laterali, posteriore dorsali, nigris notata; interstitiis tertio et quinto postice 

 elevatis. Pygidium fuscum, linea mediana luteo-tomentosa. 



Infra sparsius pubescens, sed pube in sternorum lateribus ac abdoniinalium 

 segmentorum angulis lateralibus densa ; metasternum macula elongata laterali nigra 

 notatum. Femora apice excepto luteo-rufa. 



Long. 11 mm., rostr. 4i, elytr. 7, lat. 5. 



Hah. Humboldt Bay, Xew Guinea (W. Doherty, September and October, 1892) ; 

 Wokau, Aru Is. (0. Beccari, 1873). 



The single specimen from the Aru Islands differs from the tyjie from Humboldt 

 Bay in having the elytral band interrupted at the sides, where it turns towards the 

 disc, and having one black puncture only before the apex. 



In pattern this species reminds one of Aeorynus araabilis Pascoe. 



23. Altipectus nigrofemorale ^p. nov. 



(?. A. fusco-rufus; capite cum rostro, coriiore infra, pedibusque nigris; luteo- 

 griseo-pubescens. Rostrum prothorace quarta parte longius ; infra glabrum, sparsim 

 punctulatum, utrimque sulcatum, sulcorum dimidio basali angustissimo levius impresso. 

 Antennae brnnneae, articulis summa basi ac apice rufis. Protborax longitndine parum 

 latior, conicus, dorso utrimque ad lineam medianam pauce elevatam jiarum longi- 

 trorsum impressus, vitta laterali indistincta fusca omatus ; carina dorsali inconspicue 

 versus posticum curvata subrecta, in lateribus semicirculariter antrorsum flexa, mox 

 ante medium abbreviata. Elytra, interspatio tertio caeteris levius convexiore, sex 

 guttis fuscis notata, tribus lateralibus: duabus posthumeralihus, una pone alteram 

 sita, tertia anteapicali ; tribus dorsalibus : duabus postmedianis transverse dispositis, 

 tertia subapicali. 



Prosternum panun inaequale. Metasterni cpisterna densius pubescentia. 



Long. 10 mm., rostr. 4. elytr. 7, lat. oi. 



