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



short broad rostrum. The general colour seems to be brown mucii 

 varied with white and fulvous, the eyes are very large, round and 

 contiguous, being only divided by orange cilia?. The thorax is 

 transverse and moderately convex, with a narrow median impression, 

 four indistinct fulvous irregular vittse on the disk, and the sides 

 white. The elytra are much bulkier than the thorax and about 

 twice the length, and striate-punctate, with, behind the middle, a 

 broad wavy whitish fascia not reaching the sides, and with, in 

 front and behind it, an equally irregular fascia of dark brown; 

 the pygidiurn is triangular and tricarinate. 

 Length, 5J lines. 



177. Nessiara unituberculata. n. sp. 



Dull opaque brown, flat. Thorax much wider behind than in 

 front, the median line lightly marked, and on each side of it in 

 front of the middle there is a small depression occupied by a granule. 

 The elytra are flat, very finely striate-punctate, the interstices plain; 

 on the 4th interstice near the apex there is a prominent tubercle, 

 behind these the elytra descend vertically, and the space between 

 the tubercles is much excavated. The under surface is entirely 

 covered with a greenish-white pubescence. 



Length, 3 \ lines. 



178. Nessiara irrorata. n. sp. 



Brown, varied with white, yellow and fulvous pubescence. 

 Head nearly vertical in front, and entirely covered with cinereous 

 pubescence. The thorax is convex, and widens rapidly to near the 

 base, the median line is distinctly depressed and clothed with a 

 short line of white pubescence at the apex and from that to near 

 the base it is lined with a reddish pubescence, the whole of the back 

 part is varied with whitish ill-defined spots. The elytra are of the 

 width of the thorax at the base and twice its length, very variegated, 

 striate-punctate, the second interstice elevated on the apical third 

 into a sharp glabrous ridge, the whole more or less marked with 

 small white spots. There are many and various whitish marks 

 besides, the most distinct being one which seems to surround the 

 humeral angles. 



Length, 4 lines. 



