210 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford's 



sides very slightly rounded behind, strongly rounded in front con- 

 jointly with the apex, hind-angles rectangular, scarcely rounded, 

 base truncate ; surface with a median transverse elevation, convex 

 and declivous anterioi'Iy with rather fine granular asperation, 

 posteriorly cylindric, rather strongly punctured, the punctures 

 deeper and subasperate at the sides, finer towards the middle, the 

 median line obsolete, the interspaces not very shining. Scutellum 

 rounded, black, subopaque. Elytra scarcely as wide as the pro- 

 thorax and one-half longer, truncate at base, the shoulders rounded 

 subrectangular, the sides subparallel, very slightly convergent 

 behind and strongly incurved at apex, the hind margin obtusely 

 rounded ; surface cylindric, subnitid, closely and strongly punc- 

 tured, the punctures of the strife and interstices indistinguishable 

 before the middle, apical third strougly but gradually declivous 

 and subretuse, not margined, subcircularly and weakly impressed, 

 subopaque, finely lineato-punctate, the interstices with rows of 

 very fine short hairs springing from minute subasperate points, 

 and distinguishable before the summit of the declivity. Under- 

 side piceous, very shortly pubescent. 



Hah. New Guinea (Wallace). 



One example; easily distinguished by its confusedly 

 punctate elytra/ subretuse at the apex, and unarmed. 



Xt/lehorus semirudis, sp. n. 



Fem. Oblonga, subcylindrica, ferruginea, parce tenuiter 

 pilosa ; prothorace transverso, apice rotuudatp, disco medio 

 transverse elevato, posterius sat nitido, sublfevi ; elytris punctato- 

 striatis ante medium nitidis, post medium opacis, convexe decliv- 

 ibus, interstitiis uniseriato-granulatis, declivitate infra marginata. 

 Long. 3 mm. 



Female. Oblong, subcylindrical, bright ferruginous, finely and 

 very scantily pubescent. Frontal surface slightly flattened, some- 

 what irregular, scantily punctured at the sides, smooth and 

 elevated in the middle ; eyes small, deeply emarginate. Prothorax 

 broader than long, the sides scarcely rounded behind the middle, 

 gradually more strongly rounded and incurved in front, the apex 

 broadly rounded, hind-angles rectangular, the base transverse ; 

 surface with a transverse median elevation, in front convex, and 

 asperate with imbricate rugt^, which become Aveak and very close on 

 the elevation, behind cylindric and subdeclivous to the base 

 moderately shining, with minute close reticulation and scattered' 



