200 MARTIN JACOBY 



sely punctate-striate anteriorly , finely posteriorly , greenish , 

 or ol)Scure fulvous, opaque. 



Length 4-4 y, lines. 



Head swollen at the vertex, with the usual longitudinal 

 groove , covered wnth oblong punctures ; episteme separated 

 from the face by a deep groove, not broader than long, its 

 anterior margin very deeply concave-emarginate , surface stron- 

 gly and rather closely punctured. Antennae more than half the 

 length of the body , slender , entirely fulvous. Thorax transver- 

 sely convex, distinctly narrowed anteriorly, the sides rather 

 strongly rounded, all the angles acute but scarcely produced, 

 surface finely punctured at the disk, very strongly at the sides, 

 the punctuation irregularly distributed and not extending quite 

 to the lateral or basal margin. Scutellum scarcely broader than 

 long , subangulate towards the apex. Elytra very slightly broa- 

 der at the base than the thorax without basal depression , deeply 

 and distantly punctured anteriorly , the punctures transverse and 

 getting gradually finer and almost obsolete near the apex, the 

 interstices somewhat sulcate near the base, but smooth and flat 

 posteriorly. Femora simple. 



New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D'Albertis). 



Allied to R. nigroaenea Baly, but separated by the opaque 

 greenish or brownish upper surface, the bright fulvous legs and 

 antennae , and the punctuation of the elytra which is remote 

 and transverse in regard to the single punctures, also differing 

 in the impunctate interstices, and the shape of the epistome. 



17. PJliyparida sul^costata, n. sp. 



Ovate, fulvous or testaceous. Head impunctate. Thorax mi- 

 nutely punctured. Elytra striate-punctate, the interstices convex 

 laterally, with an obli(|ue short costa at the shoulder. 



Length 2 V2 lii^^s. 



Head impunctate; epistome obsoletely separated from the tace, 

 scarcely longer than broad, impunctate, its anterior margin 

 very slightly concave. Antennae of about half the length of the 



