138 INSECTS OF THE FLY RIVER, NEW GUINEA, "COLEOPTERA." 



is truncate and about the same width as the apex ; the posterior 



angles are rather obtusely rectangular, the disk is flat, densely 



and very minutely punctured, clothed with a very short silky 



pubescence, and deeply impressed on the median line, with a 



recurved lateral margin and a deep impression on the basal half 



on each side near the posterior angle. Elytra brownish black, 



opaque, flat, parallel-sided, densely and minutely punctured, clothed 



with a very minute silky pubescence and marked with 8 or 9 



almost invisible striae. The legs are piceous, the tarsi clothed with 



long hairs. Length 5 lines, 



I place this insect in W. S. Macleay's genus Planetes because it 



comes nearer to it than any thing else, and I wish to avoid 



multiplying genera. The very minute puncturation and generally 



obsolete sculpture of the elytra however, indicate a marked 



difference from others of the genus, but in respect to the points 



usually accepted as good generic characters, I cannot observe any 



difference. 



Sub-Family. BRACHINIDES. 



5. Pheropsophus Papuensis. Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p 166. 



I described this insect from one specimen taken in the Delta of 

 the Fly River during my expedition to New Guinea in 1875. 

 The specimen then described was a female, I find a number of 

 males in the present collection and they differ from the females in 

 being much smaller and without the red spot on the elytra. 



Sub-Family. PERICALLIDES. 



6. MlSCELUS MORIONIFORMIS. Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 168. 

 This species was described from a single specimen taken at Hall 

 Sound, New Guinea, during the Chevert Expedition in 1875. 



Stricklandia. Nov. gen. 



Labium as in Coptodera. 



Palpi moderate, the terminal joint of the maxillary cylindrical, 

 rather obtuse, longer than the penultimate. Labium longer than 

 broad, truncate and sexsetose. 



