78 Phylophaga Mulayana. 



Head flat, base deeply but not closely punctured on its lower 

 half, punctures crowded on the inner border of the eyes, front im- 

 pressed with a shallow longitudinal groove, nearly free from 

 punctures ; eyes ovate, their inner edge angularly notched ; 

 antennae slender, two-thirds the length of the body. Thorax 

 nearly twice as broad as long across the base ; sides rounded and 

 converging from base to apex, posterior angles acute, basal border 

 truncate on either side, medial lobe slightly produced, its apex 

 broadly truncate ; upper surface convex, smooth and shining, 

 nearly impunctate, being only impressed at very distant intervals 

 with a few deep punctures. Scutellum oblique, elongate-trigonate, 

 thickened, its basal margin overlapping the basal lobe of the 

 thorax; surface smooth, impunctate. Elytra scarcely broader 

 than the base of the thorax, parallel, sides not distinctly lobed at 

 their base; upper surface subcylindrical, excavated at the base 

 within the humeral callus, slightly thickened around the scutellum; 

 on each are nine or ten rows of deep piceous punctures, which 

 are placed somewhat irregularly in each row ; near the suture, 

 on the basal half and on the outer border, the puncturing is less 

 regular ; interspaces between the punctures smooth, impunctate. 



Fam. EUMOLPID^, Lacordaire. 



Genus Aoria, Baly. 



Journ. of Entom. ii. p, 149. 



Corpus oblongum, subcylindricum, pilis adpressis dense vestitum. 

 Caput exsertum, perpendiculare ; aiitennis subfiliformibus, 

 modice robustis, articulo primo incrassato, secundo illo fere 

 dimidio breviore, ovato, tertio ad apicem incrassato, secundo 

 longiori sed quarto breviori ; oculis integris, prominentibus ; 

 menti margine antico concavo. Thorax subcylindricus, mar- 

 gine laterali obsoleto. Elytra thorace multo latiora, crebre 

 punctata. Pedes modice robusti ; femoribus subincrassatis, 

 muticis ; unguicul'is bifidis. Prosternum transversum, sulcis 

 suturalibus inter sternum et episterna obsoletis. Mesostc?'- 

 num transversum vel transverso-quadratum, apice bifurcato. 



Aoria closely resembles in habit the European genus Adoxus. 

 It may, however, be easily known by the absence of the sutural 

 grooves between the prosternum and the anterior episterna. 



