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opaque. Thorax subglobular, very convex but distinctly broader 

 than long , the sides rounded and slightly narrowed in front , 

 with a more or less distinct tooth at the middle, surface scar- 

 cely visibly punctured. Scutellum black. Elytra subquadrate , 

 narrowed towards the apex , the shoulders prominent , of a me- 

 tallic purplish or violaceous blue, distinctly and regularly punc- 

 tate-striate , each elytron with about 10 rows of punctures. Fe- 

 mora rufous or sometimes purplish , tibiae of the latter colour , 

 distinctly curved and dilated at their apices , the two last pair 

 emarginate at the same place. The variety is larger and the 

 thorax of a beautiful golden coppery colour, but structural dif- 

 ferences I can find none. 



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

 Jobi (Geelvink Bay), April (0. Beccari). 



Pliytorus, n. gen. (Sect. Ti/pophorinae). 



Ovate-rotundate. Head })erpendicular. Eyes emarginate. An- 

 tennae subfiliform, slightly thickened, third joint more than 

 twice as long as the second. Thorax transversely convex. Elytra 

 punctate-striate , their outer margin dilated and flattened. Po- 

 sterior femora toothed, the four posterior tibiae emarginate at 

 the apex. Claws bifid. Presternum elongate, widened behind; 

 anterior thoracic episternum distinctly convex and rounded. 



At once distinguished from any other genus belonging to the 

 Typophorinae by the dilated elytra and their much widened and 

 concave epipleurae , as well as by the transversely shaped thorax 

 in which the genus approaches Rlujparida from which the convex 

 anterior thoracic episternum divides it. 



Type Phytorus diialata. 



50. IPliytoi-us <liln,ta,ta,, n. sp. 



ImiIvuus. Head nearly impunclato, with a short central groove; 

 episteme wedge shaped indistinctly separated from the face, fi- 

 nely punctured, its anterior margin concave, the sides at the 



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