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



between is not emarginate. The thorax is densely covered with 

 minute tortuous elevations giving a reticulate appearance, there 

 are two incisions on the front to receive the horns of the head. 

 The striae of the elytra are small but quite distinct. The under 

 surface is sparingly clothed with hairs. 

 Length, 3 lines. 



50. LlPAROCHRUS MULTISTRIATUS. Har. 



Col. Heft., XII., p. 48, 1874. 



51. LlPAROCHRUS ALTERNANS. n. sp. 



Piceous, black, subnitid. Head smooth, a small roundish 

 depression on each side between the eyes. Thorax much broader 

 than long, moderately convex, smooth, deeply emarginate in front, 

 much rounded on the sides, and a little bisinuate at the base ; the 

 anterior angles are prominent, the posterior rounded, and the sides 

 and base are narrowly margined. The elytra are broad, convex, 

 and gradually widen to near the apex ; the sculpture consists of 

 series of coarse costse alternating with smaller ones, the intervals 

 occupied by double lines of finely punctate striae. The legs are 

 hairy, the fore tibiae are bidentate externally, and strongly 

 serrated along their entire length. 



Length, 5J lines. 



Sub-Family. MELOLONTHIDES. 



52. Lepidiota quinquelineata. Macl. 



Proc, Ent. Soc, N. S. Wales. Yol. IX., p. 701. 



43. Lepidiota squalida. n. sp. 



Blackish brown, entirely and uniformly clothed with short 

 ashen scales. The parts of the mouth and the front margin of 

 the prothorax beneath are clothed with long reddish hair, and the 

 mesosternum with recumbent pubescence, the sides of the meso 

 and metasternum and the sides of the abdominal segments are 

 clothed with white scales, the legs are setose. The thorax is quite 

 as broad as the length. The elytra are four times the length of 



