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ticos fere protensus, postice elevato-marginatus. Scutellwum minutum. 
Elytra \atissima, globosa vel rotundata, prothoracis basi haud latiora, 
humeris nullis. Pedes mediocres; femoribus haud clavatis ; tabus bre- 
viusculis, rectis, linearibus, breviter uncinatis; tars’s sequalibus, art 
penultimo dilatato, bilobo; wngwbus liberis. Metasternum brevis- 
simum. Abdomen parvum, segmentis duobus basalibus maximis, 
tertio et quarto brevissimis. Processus interfemoralis latissimus, medio 
emarginatus. 
The sterna of this genus, particularly the metasternum, are re- 
markably short; so that the anterior, intermediate, and posterior 
cox are almost contiguous, but are widely separated from their 
fellows by the deep pectoral canal, which is bordered posteriorly or 
between the two posterior pairs of coxee by a broad elevated line. 
The termination of the canal extends so far as to have forced, so to 
say, the posterior edge of the metasternum into the interfemoral 
process, and so created the emargination, which will probably prove 
the strongest character of the genus. It belongs to the Crypto- 
rhynchine. 
Myrtesis caligata. (Pl. XVII. fig. 19.) 
M. late ovata, tuberculifera, nigra, opaca, squamulis brunneis dispersis ; 
capite et rostro rugoso-punctatis, hoc utrinque linea squamosa instructo, 
apice granulato; antennis rufo-piceis, nitidis; prothorace apice con- 
stricto, dorso inzequaliter impresso, fortiter punctato, in medio carinato ; 
elytris tuberculiferis, tuberculis parum elevatis, postice magis deter- 
minatis, basi utrinque macula albo-squamosa; corpore infra nigro; 
segmentis duobus basalibus abdominis foveolatis; pedibus dense griseo- 
squamosis. Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Queensland. 
The following include descriptions of the new species of Asytesta 
and Blepiarda alluded to in the foregoing article :— 
Asytesta vittata. 
A, ovata, nigra, opaca; capite fronte convexo; rostro supra, preesertim 
in medio, rugoso-punctato; antennis ferrugineis, nitidis; prothorace 
elytris fere eequali, confertim scrobiculato, granulis numerosis nitidis 
dispersis et lineis albis quinque ornato, una mediana, alteris laterali- 
bus; elytris ut in Asytesta humeral, sed margine basali ablo et lineis 
longitudinalibus albis quinque instructo, quarum una suturali, duabus 
lateralibus ; corpore infra pedibusque squamis minutis griseis dispersis. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Moluccas; Aru. 
The white lines are distributed almost precisely as in Arachnobas 
