86 K. JORDAN 



thin mesial line and a patch on each side of pygidium, a number 

 of lateral spots on underside , and a median ring on femora and 

 tibiae brown-black ; tip of femora , base of tibiae and of first 

 tarsal segment brunnescent. 



Rostrum more than half as broad again as long, bisinuate 

 at apex; irregularly elevate and grooved, middle portion more 

 raised than sides ; three carinae, one on each side as prolonga- 

 tion of frontal border of eye, and the third in the middle, this 

 alone extending to apex. Frons half the width of the rostrum. 

 Prothorax longer than broad, not distinctly punctured, the 

 punctures being more or less concealed by the vestiture, disc 

 somewhat depressed transversely before middle and at carina, 

 the latter nearly straight, feebly convex in middle, lateral angle 

 somewhat obtuse, lateral carina slightly curved. Alternate inter- 

 spaces of elytrum somewhat raised, especially the brown-black 

 dots, third interspace with small tubercle in middle and again 

 before apical declivity, the interspace grey between these tuber- 

 cles; a transverse depression before middle. 



Length, 5 to 6 mm. 



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



Two ^^, 



10. Ax3ateiiia g-ularis spec. nov. 



c/^ 9 • Similar in colour to .4. toliana (1898); larger; frons 

 carinate, in </ about one-fourth, in 9 nearly one-half the width 

 of the rostrum ; underside of the latter deeply impressed longi- 

 tudinally, with a fine carina within impression ; pronotum much 

 more finely punctured , the punctures dispersed in middle ; derm 

 of elytrum smooth, with sparse fine punctures ; stripes distinct ; 

 segment 9 of antenna longer than 10 in both sexes, 10 being 

 starker in the c/* of gularis, than in that of toliana. 



Hab. Paumomu River, British New Guinea, IX- XII. 1892 

 (Loria); Fly River (L. M. D'Albertis). 



Two c/'c/', one 9. 



