RHYNCHOPIIOKA MALAYANA 273 



protliorace vix latiora, stria to-punctata, punctis majusciilis, rotundatis, in- 

 terstitiis planatis; femora antica incrassata compressa, infra bidentata, in- 

 termedia et postica dente parvo instructa; tibiae subarcuatse, sulcatse. Long, 

 ò mm. 



Hah, Yule Is., L. M. D'Alberiis. 



A dull-looking species belonging to that section of the genus 

 in which the elytra are scarcely broader than the prothorax. 



Abdomen segmento secundo quaui tertio quartoque simul snmptis longi- 

 tudine oaquali , et sutura prima angulata. Csetera fere ut in Tyrta.'oso. 



These are among the leading characters adopted by Lacordaire 

 in the key to the classilication of his « groupe Oryptorhynchides 

 vrais « , and they separate this genus from Tyrlwosus in which 

 the three intermediate segments are equal in length and the 

 first suture straight or nearly so. 



'2Ò2. G. prodigus, n. sp. (Tav. 2, f. lU). Validus, fuscus, squamis gri- 

 seis dense tectus ; rostrum protliorace longius , castaneum , leviter punc- 

 tatum, versus apicem ad latera sulcatum; antennae ferruginese, ante medium 

 rostri insertas ; articulis quatuor ultimis funiculi moniliformibus ; clava late 

 ovata, tomentosa; protborax minusculus, transversus, rude punctatus, tu- 

 berculis quatuor in medio transversim obsitus, antice carinatus; scutellum 

 punctiforme; elytra valde ampliata, convexa, lateribus antice parallela, 

 apice singulorum rotundata , striato-punctata , punctis remotis squamis pal- 

 lidis repletis, interstitiis alternis irregulariter elevatis, quasi nodosis, gra- 

 nulis nitidis, circa sex, juxta suturam antice notata; femora paulo incraa- 

 sata, subdentata; tibiae subcompressae ; tarsi normales. Long. 11 mm. 



Hub. Fly River, L. J\I. D'Alberiis (Aru, Wallace). 



Cyttnio bolus. 



ScHONHERR, Gen. Cure. IV, p. 177. 



25o. C. mimicus, n. sp. Anguste ovatus, niger opacus; rostrum casta- 

 neum nitidum, basi confertim punctatum; antennae ferruginea); prothorax 

 latitudine longior, leviter confertim punctatus, in medio linea glabra ab- 

 breviata; scutellum parvum, oblongum; elytra striato-punctata, punctis 

 quadratis, interstitiis rugoso-punctatis, macula rotundata, vittisque duabus 

 albis singulatim notata; pedes squamis rude adspersi ; tarsi nigro-pilosi. 

 Long. 'J mm. 



.Inn. del Mus. Cic. di St. Nat. Serie S.', Vol. n. C>A Agosto 1885). 18 



