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



196. Elais bimaculata. Gestro. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic, Genoa, IX., p. 173. 



197. Sphingnotus mirabilis. Boisd. 



Tmesistemus mirabilis Boisd. Voy., Astrol. 11, p. 468, PL VIII., 

 fig. 5. S. mirabilis Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., ser. III., 

 Vol. III., p. 483. 



198. Tmesisternus trivittatus. Guer. 



Voy. Coquille, p. 130, PL 7, fig. 12. Blanch. Voy. Pole. Sud., 

 IV., p. 284, PL 16, fig. 15. Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., ser. 

 III., Vol. Ill, p. 464. 



199. Tmesisternus politus. Blanch. 



Voy. Pole. Sud., IV, p. 288, PL 16, fig. 17. Thomson Class. 

 Longic. p. 358. Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., ser. III., Vol. 

 III., p. 461. 



200. Tmesisternus obsoletus. Blanch. 



Voy. Pole. Sud., IV, p. 282, PL 16, fig. 20. 



T. obsoletus. Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., ser. III., Vol. 

 III., p. 474, seems to be a very different insect. 



201. Tmesisternus Froggatti. n. sp. 



Dark brown, nitid, interspersed with patches of short, yellowish 

 white pubescence. The head is sparsely punctate, and covered 

 with yellowish pubescence, excepting a u arrow median line, and 

 a slightly raised line on each side, interrupted by the eye. The 

 thorax is similarly pubescent, the punctures and median line only 

 being glabrous. The scutellum is tranverse, rounded and glabrous 

 The elytra are wider at the base than, and more than three times the 



