88 Phytophaga Malayana. 



transversim excavatis, striato-punctatis, sat dense striatim 



squamosis. 

 Long. 1§ lin. 

 Hab. Menado. 



Head clothed with adpressed scales; epistome pale rufo- 

 piceous, wedge-shaped, distinctly separated from the face by a 

 sutural groove, its surface nearly glabrous ; eyes large, prominent. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, sides rounded, scarcely con- 

 verging in front, above subcylindrical, slightly flattened on the 

 disk, rugose-punctate, impressed at a short distance behind the an- 

 terior border with a broad but shallow and ill-defined transverse 

 groove ; surface clothed with adpressed scales, which radiate from 

 the centre, and are distributed equally over the whole disk. Elytra 

 coarsely striate-punctate, depressed transversely below the basilar 

 space ; somewhat closely covered with scales, which are spread 

 equally over the whole surface, and arranged in longitudinal rows. 



The transverse depression on the thorax, together with the 

 extremely regular distribution of the scales on the elytra, will se- 

 parate this insect from its congeners. 



7. Demolina pauperata, n, sp. 

 Oblonga, subcylindrica, picea, subnitida, albo-squamosa, epi- 

 stomate pedibusque (his plus minusve infuscatis) pallide 

 rufo-piceis ; thorace longitudine paullo latiori, transversim 

 convexo, opaco, profunde punctato ; elytris sat dense squa- 

 mosis, profunde striato-punctatis, interstitiis disci elevatis 

 strigas transversas indistinctas formantibus ; epistomate trans- 

 verso. 

 Long. 1 lin. 

 Hab. Dorey. 



Head opake, finely rugulose, coarsely but not deeply punc- 

 tured, clothed with ovate adpressed scales ; epistome nitidous, 

 distinctly punctured, transverse, its upper end broadly truncate. 

 Thorax rather broader than long, transversely convex, sides 

 rounded, slightly converging in front ; surface rugulose, deeply 

 punctured, clothed with adpressed scales. Scutellum obscure 

 piceous, its apex obtusely truncate. Elytra subopake, deeply 

 and coarsely striate-punctate, interspaces thickened, forming on 

 the anterior half of the surface ill-defined transverse striwa? : 

 scales rather more curved than those on the thorax, scattered 

 irregularly over the whole surface. 



