PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM NEW GUINEA 471 



lum broader than long, impuiictate, elytra very slightly wider 

 at the base than the thorax, oblong, very feebly depressed 

 below the base, the punctures strong and closely placed and 

 distinct to the apex, the 8*^^ and 9*^ row joined before the middle 

 and abbreviated, femora unarmed, presternum rather elongate, 

 narrowed between the coxae. 



British New Guinea. 



The two specimens contained in this collection seem to belong 

 to the female sex as I can see no dilatation of the anterior 

 tarsi; the species is allied to lì. opacicollis Baly but is larger; 

 like that species and several allied forms the thorax is opaque 

 and seems impunctate unless seen under a very strong lens, 

 the episteme is not longer than broad as in the last named 

 species but the reverse is the case and the thorax is not « more 

 than twice as broad as long » but scarcely more than one half 

 broader, neither is the scutellum longer than broad ; the elytral 

 interstices in the present insect are entirely impunctate and 

 slightly convex at the sides as is usually the case in tlie other 

 species. No special locality is given. 



3. Ffthypai-icia, Ixvuneronotata, sp. ii. 



Black, the labrum and the basal joints of the antenna^ fiavous, 

 head strongly, thorax finely punctured, elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate, the shoulders with a subcjuadrate fulvous spot. 



var. a. Head and tliorax fulvous, elytra without humeral spots. 



var. b. Above entirely black. 



Length 3 millim. 



Head rather elongate, piceous or black, strongly and closely 

 punctured, opaque, the clypeus distinctly separated by a trans- 

 verse groove, labrum fulvous, antennae scarcely extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, the lower five or six joints ilavous, the 

 rest black, the second joint half the length of the third, the 

 latter as long as the fourth joint, thorax one half broader than 

 long, tlie sides rather rounded, the disc with an obsolete trans- 

 verse sulcus at the sides near the anterior margin, finely and 



