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



185. Praonetha variabilis. Pascoe. 

 Trans. Enfc. Soc, Lond., ser. III., Vol. III., p. 181. 



186. Praonetha pallida, n. sp. 



Densely covered with a pale yellowish or ashen pubescence with 

 brown spots. The head has the median line finely carinated and 

 free from pubescence, with a short transverse brown spot between 

 the antennae. The antennae reddish-brown, sparingly pubescent, 

 the fourth joint with a large whitish ring. The thorax is rather flatter 

 than in P. strumosa, and almost uniformly cinereo-pubescent, with 

 the exception of two large brown spots at the base on each side. 

 The elytra are broader than the thorax, distinctly shouldered and 

 striate-punctate, on the third interstice there are elongate, tufted 

 elevations, the humeral regions and a large central spot on the 

 suture are brown, the rest is of a pale cinereous hue with small 

 brown spots, and an indistinct pale brown patch extending from the 

 sides to the central spot 



Length, 6 lines. 



187. Praonetha bizonata. n. sp. 



Dark brown varied with fulvous. Head deeply impressed 

 longitudinally, particularly between the antenna. The thorax 

 has two broad black vittse on the disk, the intermediate space is of 

 brick red. The elytra are not broadly shouldered as in P. pallida, 

 and have only one (not tufted) tubercle near the base of the third 

 interstice. A palish fascia extends from behind the shoulder in 

 an oblique depression to the middle of the elytra, bounding by a 

 defined ridge a large sooty black spot which occupies all the side of 

 each elytron to the apex, excepting a small white spot near the side. 

 The puncturation is finer than in the last species. 



Length, 6 lines. 



188. Batocera l^ena. Thorns. 

 Arch. Ent., 1, p. 450, PI. 19, f. 1. Mon., p. 70, PI. 7, f. 1. 



