56 JAVANESE BRENTHIDAE. 



Higonius Poioeri Lewis. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII, p. 299, note, 1883. 



A single male. The genus is for the first time recorded 

 from Java. 



Miolispa Pasteuri, n. sp. 



Nigro-fusca vel brunneo-fusca , parum nitida , interdum 

 capite, rostro et prothorace saturate rubro-castaneis. — cf. Ca- 

 pite parvo , quadrato; rostro fere usque ad apicem sulcato , 

 prorostri apice minime ampliato ; antennarum articuUs O'' et 

 \0^ paullo longioribus quam latioribus , sub-cylindricis , api- 

 cali elongato-acuminato ; prothorace antice fortiter constricto, 

 lateribus regulariter arcuatis, supra rugoso-punctato, in medio 

 canaliculate/ elytris profunde sulcato-punctatis, subclathratis, 

 sulco 1" angustiore quam costeris , impunctato, interstitiis 

 angustis , carinatis. — 9. Capite , metarostro et antennarum 

 articulis brevioribus , prorostro longiore et graciliore , cylin- 

 drico , prothorace ovato-conico. — Long. 8 — H'/a Dim. 



Hab. Western Java, Bantam. 



Head punctured , furrowed above with the furrow obso- 

 lete near the base, deep between the eyes. Rostrum as 

 long as 2^/2 the head, furrowed; metarostrum shorter than 

 the head , prorostrum longer, very slightly enlarged at the 

 tip, furrowed also at the sides. Antennae clubshaped with 

 the median joints hardly broader than long, slightly ob- 

 conical and almost equal in length , the 9*^ and lOtli joint 

 longer than broad , subcylindrical ; the apical is elongate , 

 acuminate at the tip and as long as the two preceding 

 joints together. 



Prothorax sub-ovate, strongly constricted at the apical 

 margin , the sides regulary curved , above rugoso-puuctate , 

 channelled in the middle. 



Elytra elongate, with the sides moderately attenuate behind 

 the basal third till the tip, at the apex they are slightly 

 emarginate in the middle , rounded externally, sulcato- 



Notes from, the Leyden JVIuseuni, Vol. ILSL, 



