82 Phytophaga Malayana. 



Head coarsely punctured, epistome much more coarsely and 

 deeply punctured than the upper portion of the face ; in the 

 middle of the face is an indistinct longitudinal ridge ; antenna 

 slender, filiform, nearly two-thirds the length of the body. Tho- 

 rax clothed with long griseous hairs, closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures very crowded at the base ; on either side behind the middle 

 is a broad ill-defined oblique groove, which meets its fellow at an 

 obtuse angle just in front of the scutellum. Elytra closely punc- 

 tured, the puncturing rather coarser than that of the thorax ; sur- 

 face clothed with concolorous hairs. 



3. Aulexis varians, n. sp. 

 Subelongata, minus parallela, obscure fulva, nitida, griseo-vil- 

 losa, antennis extrorsum elytrisque nigro-piceis ; thorace 

 transverso, subcrebre punctato, pone medium arcuatim ex- 

 cavato ; elytris subcrebre punctatis. 

 Var. A. Elytris basi fulvis. 

 Var. B. Elytris totis fulvis. 

 Long. Ig lin. 

 Hab. Sarawak. 



Subelongate, obscure fulvous, clothed with suberect griseous 

 hairs. Head punctured, epistome more distantly and much more 

 coarsely punctured than the face ; antennae subfiliform, distinctly 

 thickened towards the apex, the six or seven outer joints piceous. 

 Thorax transverse, more finely and less closely punctured than in 

 either of the two preceding species ; impressed near the base with 

 a broad arcuate transverse excavation, which extends nearly across 

 the entire thorax. Elytra shorter and broader than in the two 

 other species, more convex and more finely punctured ; basilar 

 space on each elytron slightly thickened. 



Genus Piomera, Baly. 

 Journ. of Entom. ii. p. 156. 

 Corpus non metaliicum, elongatum, subcylindricum, squatnis 

 adpressis vestitum, subtus (pedibus exceptis) fere glabrum. 

 Caput exsertuni, perpendiculare ; antennis gracilibus, siib- 

 filiformibus, articulo basali incrassato, secundo brevi, ovato, 

 subincrassato, tertio et sequentibus subeequalibus, singulis ar- 

 ticulo basali paullo longioribus, tertio et tribus proximis 

 gracilibus, caeteris paullo incrassatis ; ocidis prominentibus, 

 rotundatis, integris ; epistomate elevato, transverso, brevi ; 



