502 COLEOPTERA 



pitchy-brown hue. Legs moderate, squamose, the thighs distinctly den- 

 tate below, the tibiae setose externally. The tarsi are red ; the antennce 

 reddish, the second joint of the funiculus quite twice the length of the 

 small third joint. Scutelliim very small. 



Length (rost. excl.) 2-2! lines; breadth, li. 



I found my two specimens at Parua. 



Rhyncodes. 



White ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. vii.,/. 108. 



Rostrum rather long, more or less robust, depressed, rounded at the 

 angles, sub-parallel, moderately or scarcely arched ; its scrohes commen- 

 cing at the middle, rectilinear or oblique. Antennce. rather long, 

 moderately robust ; scape clavate at the end, not quite attaining the eye ; 

 first two joints of the funiculus elongate, obconical, of variable length, 

 joints three to seven, short, sub-turbinate or sub-globular ; club oblong- 

 oval, compact or sub-compact. Eyes very large, slightly convex, oval, 

 transversal, moderately separated above. Prothorax transversal, modera- 

 tely convex or plane above, parabolically rounded or sub-rectilinear at 

 the sides behind, strongly narrowed in front, with its apex moderately 

 prominent and without lateral lobes, bisinuated at the base with a 

 median lobe of variable form. Scutellum moderate, oval. Elytra 

 rather convex, compressed and carinated laterally, gradually and strongly 

 narrowed behind, declivous and callose near the extremity, not wider 

 than the prothorax, and sinuated at their base, with rectangular shoulders. 

 Legs long, the anterior most so ; femora sub-linear or gradually incrassa- 

 ted, finely dentate underneath ; tibice. compressed, a Httle arcuated or 

 nearly straight, armed with strong spurs, their inner angle furnished with 

 a tuft of hairs and sometimes dentiform, the anterior ciliated inwardly 

 with fine long hairs ; tarsi rather long and broad, very pubescent and 

 fringed with long hairs at the edges, their first joint elongate, strongly 

 narrowed and arched at its base, second triangular, third transversal, 

 cleft, fourth large, claws moderate. Second abdominal segf?ient longer 

 than the third and fourth united, separated from the first by a slightly 

 curved suture. Intercoxal process rather broad, elongate ; metasternum 

 at most of medium length, its episterna more or less wide ; meso- 

 sternum of variable form. 



Body oblong-navicular (i.e. boat-shaped), pubescent. 



In the females the legs are more slender, the anterior tibire are not 

 provided with long fine hairs on the inner edge, and their tarsi are 

 narrower and not ciliated on the edges. 



894. R. lirS'dS, Wliite; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. Deep brown ; the 

 thorax with two longitudinal bands of a lighter colour near the side ; 

 elytra above with five rows of hairs, on each side of which is a row of 

 very deep punctures, between every two of which is a smoothish ridge ; 

 across the elytra are two obscure, dark brown bands ; legs black, femora 

 above at the end with a spot of yellowish brown hairs ; abdomen beneath 

 with the last segment having two tufts of hair. 



