Phytophaga Malayana. 15 



fulvous. Thorax rather broader than long, subcylindrical, 

 strangulated behind the middle ; surface smooth and shining, 

 obsoletely punctured. Scutellum shining fulvous. Elytra oblong, 

 convex, deeply impressed transversely below their base ; each 

 elytron with ten rows of fine punctures, whicli become obsolete 

 towards the apex, puncturing on the transverse depression coarse 

 and deeply impressed ; shining black, the basal third bright 

 fulvous. Beneath nigro-piceous, meso- and meta-thorax, thighs 

 and base of tibiae fulvous. 



14. Lema mililarls, Baly. (PI, I. fig. 4.) 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd Ser. vol. i. p. 612. 



Subelongata, parallela, subcylindrica, nigra, nitida; thorace, 

 pectore, profemorum basi et apice, mesofemorum apice, 

 metafemorum plaga infra, elytrorumque basi et fascid vix 

 pone medium fulvis; thorace posterius profunde constricto ; 

 elytris tenuiter punctatis, infra basin non transversim sulcatis. 



Mas. — Femoribus posticis valde incrassatis, subtus spina valida 

 armatis. 



Fcem. — Femoribus posticis minus incrassatis, muticis. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Head constricted behind the eyes ; face triangular, epistome 

 triangular, front smooth and shining, finely punctured, impressed 

 behind with a short longitudinal fossa ; antennae filiform, three- 

 fourths the length of the body, fifth joint shorter than the two 

 preceding united ; eyes notched. Thorax very similar in form to 

 that of L. Papuana, deeply strangulate just behind the middle, 

 surface smooth, remotely impressed with very fine punctures. 

 Elytra much broader than the thorax, nearly four times its 

 length ; sides parallel, their apex regularly rounded, above con- 

 vex, impressed within the humeral callus, each elytron with ten 

 rows of distinct punctures, visible to the apex, the row nearest 

 the suture sulcate in front, interspaces smooth, slightly raised near 

 the apex of the elytron. Body beneath smooth and shining, 

 abdomen nearly glabrous. Hinder thighs in the male equal to the 

 abdomen in length ; in the female not extending beyond the first 

 three segments, much less thickened, and unarmed. 



The absence of the transverse depression on the elytra, the 

 larger size and different coloration, will at first sight separate this 

 species from L. Papuana and its near neighbours. 



The six species from L. Papuana to L. mililans inclusive form 



