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



a long acute spine at the sutural apex, and another shorter at the 

 outer extremity of the apical emargination. The legs are piceous. 

 Every portion of the upper surface is clothed with a short erect 

 pile. 



Length, 5 lines. 



In many respects this insect seems to resemble the Madagascar 

 genus Nycteis, though the general aspect is more that of a Pericallits, 

 from which however in other respects it differs more widely. From 

 Thyreopterus, Catascopus and the other genera formed in that 

 group by the late Baron de Chaudoir, it differs both in having 

 pectinate ungues to the tarsi, and in having no tooth in the 

 emargination of the mentum, while from, from the Coptoderides of 

 Chaudoir, to which group I believe it is really most nearly allied, 

 it differs in the unarmed mentum from all the genera excepting 

 Nycteis. 



Sub-Family. MORIONIDES. 



8. Morio stolidus. Chaud. 



Bull. Mosc, 55, p. 336. 



Sub-Family. CHL.FNIIDES. 

 9. Chl^enius nigripes. n. sp. 



Like C. punctatus Chaud. Of a brownish black colour, with the 

 antennae, palpi, and tarsi, piceous. Head minutely rugose ; thorax 

 depressed, almost square, slightly rounded on the sides, rather 

 distantly punctured on the disk and with the median line and 

 basal depressions distinctly but not profoundly impressed. 



Elytra rather wider than the thorax, with nine striae and a short 

 scutellar one on each elytron, the interstices broad, depressed, and 

 densely and minutely punctate ; an orange patch near the apex of 

 each elytron on the 3rd to the 8th interstice, the outer half of the 

 patch extending nearer to the apex. 



The under surface, thighs, and tibiae the same colour as the 

 upper surface but more nitid. 



Length, 6 J lines. 



