Phytophuga Malayana. 39 



regularly rounded ; above convex, indistinctly impressed at the 

 base within the humeral callus, transversely depressed below the 

 basilar space, surface smooth and shining, each elytron with 

 eleven rows of fine punctures, visible to their apex, the first short ; 

 interspaces smooth and flat, impunctate. Legs moderately robust, 

 hinder thighs scarcely thicker than the others, equal in length to the 

 first two segments of the abdomen. Abdomen sparingly covered 

 with fineadpressed concolorous pubescence, edges of the segments 

 clothed with a row of coarse hairs. 



This insect is nearly allied to C Pfeifferce ; the pale antennae and 

 legs, together with the much smaller extent of the red colour on 

 the elytra, will at once separate it from that species. I possess 

 three specimens of the insect from two localities, but they do not 

 show any variation in colouring. 



The following species, described since the publication of 

 Lacoidaire's Monograph, is unknown to me. 



18. Crioceris nigrozotmta, Blanch. 

 Homb. et Jacq. Voyage au Pole Sud, Zool. iv. p. 309, pi. 1 8, fig. 4. 

 " Ovata, tota testacea, nitida ; antennis nigris, basi testaceis, 

 prothorace isevi, convexo, postice constricto, transversim 

 impresso; elytris concoloribus, subtiliter striato-punctatis, 

 fascia postica, sutura interrupta nigrescenti ; pedibus totis 

 testaceis. 

 Long. 8 millim." 

 Hab. Triton Bay, New Guinea. " 



Blanchard does not make any distinutioq between Lema and 

 Crioceris: it is therefore possible that the present species belongs 

 to the former genus ; if not, it ought to stand next to C. eximia 

 {ante, p. 34). 



Genus Brachydactyla, Lac. 



Mon. Phyt. i. p. 599. 



1. Brachydactyla discoidea, Guer, (PI. L fig. 8.) 



Lac. Mon. Phyt. i. p. 560. 



" Ferruginea ; antennis, femorum apice, tibiis tarsisque nigris ; 

 prothorace Isevi, quadrato, posterius ante basin nonnihil con- 

 stricto ; elytris mediocriter punctato-striatis, saturate chaly- 

 beis vel violaceis, macula magna communi baseos, ferruginea." 



Long. 3|— 3| lin. (Lacordaire.) 



Hab. Java. 



