BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 705 



reaching the suture are black. The knee joints are black, the 

 tarsi reddish beneath, and the abdominal segments are lightly 

 clothed with hair. 



Long., 15 lin. One specimen. 



12. Rhinoscapha Maclayi. nov. sp. 



Black, nitid ; head densely punctured in front, lightly behind, 

 covered with a thin ashen pubescence and furnished with a 

 number of strong hairs about the mouth. The extremity of the 

 snout as broad as the head. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, 

 broader at the base than the apex, and also broader than the 

 head, very regularly mai'ked, and with a depression on the 

 anterior part of the median line. A broad depressed space on the 

 side and under surface of the apex of the thorax is densely 

 covered with reddish golden scales, and on each side from the 

 middle to the base there is a broad vitta of the same. The elytra 

 ai - e convex, broader than the thorax, with a prominent humeral 

 callus, and pointed at the apex ; on each elytron are nine rows of 

 large oblong punctures, the intervals scarcely raised ; the extreme 

 apex is mucronate. A sutural vitta including the scutellum, a 

 broadish fascia behind the shoulder and not reaching the suture, 

 and a narrower rather curved fascia behind the middle and 

 extending to the suture, are densely clothed with golden scales. 

 The metasternum is similarly clothed. The legs are sparingly 

 punctured, each puncture with a short seta. 



Length, 14 lines. 



Four specimens of this fine species among such a limited collec- 

 tion would lead to the conclusion that it is a common insect on 

 the Maclay coast, and yet among the many species described by 

 various authors I can find nothing like it. 



13. Celeuthetes bicristatus. Montr. 



Faune del 'Isle Woodlark, p. 49. Lacord. Gen. Col. VI., p. 150. 

 (Note.) 



I believe this insect to be the Otiorhynchus bicristatus of Mon- 

 trouzier. The scape of the antennae is fine at its insertion, but 



