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sterior margin nearly semicircular, surface covered only here 

 and there with a few fine punctures; elytra broadly ovate and 

 rounded , wider at the base than the thorax, the shoulders raised 

 in a kind of elongate tubercle; surface closely and irregularly 

 as well as strongly punctured, the interspaces slightly convex, 

 dark violaceous blue; below and the legs fulvous. 



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



Differently coloured than P. Chapuisij, the thorax much broader 

 and the elytral punctuation stronger and more irregulai". A 

 single specimen. 



HALTICINAE. 

 a. Anterior coxal cavities closed. Thorax without transverse basal groove. 



Genus Ox^hrida, Chapuis. 

 17. Ophrida, striatipeniiis , n. sp. 



Dark fulvous below; antennae black, the three basal joints 

 fulvous; head and thorax ol)Scure testaceous; elytra testaceous, 

 strongly punctate-striate , a spot at the shoulder and 3 or 4 

 longitudinal stripes at the disk, piceous. 



A^ar. the elytral stripes, conliuent, occupying nearly the en- 

 tire disk. 



Length 5 ^0-6 lines. 

 - Head entirely impunctate, with a deep oblique groove at ei- 

 ther side fom the inner margin of the eye to the episteme; 

 labrum piceous; palpi thin, slender; antennae long, filiform, 

 the fourth joint one half longer than the third; thorax trans- 

 verse, the anterior margin concave, posterior one, sinuate; sides 

 nearly straight, slightly widened and rounded in front of the 

 anterior angles, surface fiat, with a semicircular row of deep 

 punctures near the anterior angles, joined by a few scattered 

 punctures near the basal portion; scutellum subovate, impunc- 

 tate; elytra parallel, but slightly convex, strongly and very 

 regularly punctate-striate, the punctures somewhat approached 

 in pairs, their interspaces as well as the suturai and lateral 



