NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 207 



Var. elytra testaceous, the disk more or less stained with 

 piceous. 



Length 1 line. 



Head finely and rather distantly punctured; clypeus scarcely 

 separated from the face, not longer than broad, more deeply punc- 

 tured than the head. Antennae thin and rather slender, pale 

 testaceous, the intermediate joints piceous. Thorax twice as broad 

 as long, the sides subangulate below the middle, strongly de- 

 flexed anteriorly, all angles armed with a minute tooth; sur- 

 face very obsoletely transversely depressed near the anterior 

 margin, rather finely and closely punctured, piceous or black, 

 the anterior margin darker or lighter fulvous. Elytra with a 

 short Ijut distinct depression below the base , strongly punctate- 

 striate, more finely towards the apex, black, an elongate spot 

 at the humeral callus and a larger one near the apex, fulvous. 

 Femora unarmed, piceous, their base testaceous. Tibiae enti- 

 rely of that colour. 



New Guinea, Korido, Island of Miseri (Geelvink Bay) (0. 

 Beccari). 



Numerous specimens of this small and distinct species were 

 obtained by Doct. 0. Beccari. The light colour of the upper 

 surface extends in some specimens so far as to leave only the 

 middle part of the elytra, dark. The bifid claws show the spe- 

 cies to belong to the present genus, the nearest allied form of 

 which seems to be R. picla Baly, from which it may be at 

 once distinguished by the distinctly punctured head and thorax 

 and the pale antennae. 



?6. JRliyparida apiealis, n. sp. 



Oblong-ovate, black. Head, basal joints of the antennae and 

 the legs , fulvous. Thorax finely strigose-punctate at the sides , 

 black. Elytra strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, the apex im- 

 punctate, the latter and a spot at the shoulder, flavous. 



Var. the apex and shoulder spot of the elytra obsolete; legs 

 piceous. 



