PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM NEW GUINEA 477 



Head nearly impunctate, the eyes surrounded by a narrow 

 sulcus, episteme obsoletely separated from the face, with a few 

 punctures, antennae entirely fulvous, the terminal joints slightly 

 thickened, thorax transverse, the lateral margins ratlier incU- 

 stinct, nijarly straight, the disc scarcely perceptibly, the sides 

 strongly punctured, elytra convex, pointed posteriorly, deeply 

 punctured in rows, the punctures rather widely separated, legs 

 with a purplish gloss, femora with a long spine. 



Mt. Astrolabe, Novembei-, 



Of this small species two specimens are before me which show 

 some slight differences; the antennae in one of them have the 

 apical joints rather darker and the disc of the thorax is more 

 distinctly punctured, but as the specimens were both obtained 

 at the same locality, the above differences are probably sexual. 



The species is closely allied to S. nigritula Baly and S. atra 

 Baly but differs from the first named in having the vertex of 

 the head shining and nearly impunctate, not granulose and 

 opake, also in the posteriorly narrowed elytra ; from the other 

 species the present one may be distinguished by the different 

 sculpture of the head and thorax. 



TRICLIOPHORA, gen. n. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, antennae filiform, the third joint much 

 longer than the second, eyes entire, thorax subcylindrical, broader 

 than long, strongly narrowed anteriorly, when viewed from 

 above, the sides strongly deflexed in front, scutellum broader than 

 long, elytra subcylindrical, strongly pointed posteriorly, punctate- 

 striate, legs robust, the femora thickened, the posterior ones 

 slightly curved, all unarmed, tibiae dilated towards the middle, 

 strongly sulcate, the intermediate and posterior ones emarginate 

 at the apex, claws bifid, prosternum convex, widened at the 

 base, broad, the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum 

 convex. 



The shape of the insect for which the present genus is pro- 

 posed resembles much one belonging to the family Curculionidce 



