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margin, together with a spot at tlie shoulder, piceous ; underside 

 and legs, dark fulvous. 



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



I have placed this species (which may be separated from any 

 of its allies by the longitudinal piceous elytral stripes) , in the 

 present genus on account of the straight posterior margin of the 

 prosternum , the latter in Podonlia having a triangularly exca- 

 vate or nearly bilobed appearance. Whether this character applies 

 to all the species at present placed in the last named genus is 

 doubtful. Three specimens were obtained by M.'" L, M. D'Al- 

 bertis, in one of which the elytra are nearly entirely piceous 

 with the exception of the narrow testaceous suturai and lateral 



margin. 



18. Oplii'icla nig-romaculata 5 n. sp. 



Elongate, robust; below black; base of the anterior femora 

 and part of the breast, fulvous; above testaceous; elytra finely 

 punctate-striate , two spots at the base, another near the apex 

 and a transverse band at the middle , as well as the suturai 

 and lateral margin , black. 



Length 6 lines. 



Head impunctate; the space between the antennae impressed 

 at each side with a short, curved groove; antennae scarcely 

 half the length of the body , the four lower joints fulvous , the 

 rest black; fourth joint one half longer than the third; thorax 

 transverse , the sides straight , subangulate before the middle ; 

 anterior angles prominent; anterior and posterior margin slightly 

 sinuate, surface with several obsolete shallow depressions; a 

 circular row of deep punctures surrounds the space in front of 

 the anterior angles from the inner margin of which a few 

 punctures are placed obliquely towards the basal margin; at 

 each side of the latter a small but deep fovea is seen; rest of 

 the surface impunctate; scutellum black; elytra with 10 rows 

 of regular and fine punctures, which appear here and there 

 transversely wrinkled or scratched; a small spot at the shoulder, 

 another below the scutellum, an obliquely shaped band at the 



Ann. del Mas. C'ir, di St. Nat. Serie 2.3, Vol. II. (2?. Maggio 1S85). 3 



