PHYTOPHAGA FROM SUMATRA 421 



finely piincturod, elytra more strongly and somewhat rugosely 

 punctured, fulvous or fiavous, the base with a transverse Ijlack 

 band. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head with a few very fine punctures , the vertex sometimes 

 fiilvous, frontal elevations scarcely raised, broad, nearly conti- 

 guous with the broad clypeus, the latter strongly raised, with 

 a few minute ])unctures, lai)rum fiavous, palpi strongly incras- 

 sate, pale, stained with jiiceous, antennae extending to the base 

 of the elytra only, black, the last joint whitish, first joint elon- 

 gate, second one smaller than the third, the following joints 

 tliickened , pubescent , longer than broad, thorax three times 

 broader than long, the sides nearly straight, with a narrow 

 margin, the anterior angles broadly o])lique, much thickened, the 

 surface irregularly and finely punctured, black, posterior margin 

 sinuate at the sides, nearly truncate at the middle, elytra strongly 

 convex, rather strongly and somewhat rugosely punctured, the 

 basal portion to about one fourth the length , black , the rest 

 fulvous or fiavous, underside and legs black, the first joint of 

 the posterior tarsi as long as the two following joints together, 

 claws appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities closed. 



llab. Si-Rambé, Pangherang-Pisang. 



Closely allied to \. dimidiata, Baly but smaller, the antennae 

 with the apical joint pale and the abdomen black, the elytra 

 have the black band at the base extending some distance down- 

 wards along the lateral margin , a single specimen from Pan- 

 gherang-Pisang is rather larger, darker in colour and the elytra 

 are more finely and not rugosely punctured, but otherwise there 

 is no difference, in the absence of more specimens I am unable 

 to say whether this is a variety or another closely allied species. 



oO. Podagrica rotundata, n. sp. — Ovately- rounded, light 

 brown, thorax extremely finely punctured with a perpendicular 

 groove at each side, elytra regularly punctate-striate, tlie inter- 

 stices longitudinally convex. 



Length 2 lines. • 



Of rounded and somewhat fiattened shape, entirely light brown, 



