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and apex. Underside and legs also closely covered with scales. 

 All the femora armed with a stout tooth , tibiae simple ; claws 

 bifid; prosternmn very broad, slightly widened posteriorly. 



Celebes, Kandari, March 1874 (Beccari). 



I have referred the two specimens before me to M.'' Baly's 

 genus Piomera , although not without consideraljle doubt, as 

 one of the principal characters, the large anterior thighs, pe- 

 culiar to the genus, is l)ut slightly expressed. The other struc- 

 tural characters are however present. The insect bears a great 

 resemblance to a species of Curculio; when viewed sideways 

 with a lens, the elytra are seen to be furnished with numerous 

 stiff erect fulvous hairs. The rather large size and Ijlack and 

 white colour will distinguish the present species from most other 

 allied forms described in M."" Baly's monograph of the Malayan 

 Phytophaga. 



11. Rhyparida, l>ieolor , n. sp. 



Black; base of the antennae, head and tliorax and the base 

 of the anterior femora, fulvous. Thorax impunctate. Elytra fi- 

 nely punctate-striate. Anterior femora dentate. 



Length 2-3 Hues. 



Head impunctale, shining fulvous; epistome separated from 

 the face, not longer than broad, wedgeshaped, scarcely visibly 

 punctured, its anterior margin very slightly concave. Labrum 

 and palpi fulvous; jaws black. Antennae of about half the 

 length of the body, black, the two Ixisal joints fulvous. Thorax 

 transversely convex , the sides distinctly rounded , the anterior 

 angles armed with an acute tooth , surface entirely impunctate, 

 shining fulvous. Scutellum of the same colour^ a little longer 

 than broad. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, with a 

 short and rather distinct transverse depression below the base , 

 the latter slightly raised , surface finely but regularly punctate- 

 striate, the sti'iae entire but more finely impressed near the 

 apex, intei'sticos plane. Anterior femoi-a armed with a distinct tooth. 



Sumatra , Mt. Singalang (0. Beccari). 



