190 INSECTS OF THE FLY RIVER, NEW GUINEA, "COLEOPTERA," 



covered all over with whitish spots and specks, a little thinner 

 behind the middle, giving a little of the appearance of a black 

 fascia. The elevation on each side of the scutellum so marked in 

 all of the genus is in this species particularly so, and appears to be 

 formed of nitid granules. In other respects it resembles the last 

 species. 



Length, 2 lines. 



144. Blepiarda vitiata. Pascoe. 

 Jour. Linn. Soc, Lond., Zool., XL, p. 210. 



145. Poropterus concretus. Pascoe. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, 1885, p. 262. 



146. Poropterus pertinax. Pascoe. 



Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, 1885, p. 263. 



I am doubtful of the identity of this insect. 



147. Orphanistes grandis. n. sp. 



I cannot find any genus which exactly suits this fine insect, but 

 its affinity to Orphanistes is very marked. 



Black, subnitid, elongate, oval. Rostrum a little depressed and 

 arcuate, finely punctate, more densely at the base, where it is 

 ridged. Head globular, nitid, thinly punctured. Thorax longer 

 then broad, narrow and rounded in front, broader and biemarginate 

 at the base, very moderately rounded on the sides and scarcely 

 convex above, foveated, finely carinated on the median line — the 

 carina not quite reaching the base or apex — and covered with a 

 very dense mass of white scales excepting on the apex, and a large 

 nearly square patch in the middle of the base. Elytra much 

 broader than, and twice the length of, the thorax, the humeral 

 angles sloping and strongly tuberculate immediately behind, 

 gradually narrowed from thence to the apex, strongly foveated, 

 the fovese large and square, and separated by narrow uneven 

 insterstices, and marked with several white spots on the anterior 



