94 Phytophaga Malayana. 



lontJ-itudinal stripe of nearly erect black scales ; on the hinder 

 disk are also a number of small patches of dirty-white suberect 

 scales. 



Genus Pachnephorus, Redt. 

 Faun. Aust. i. p. 569 ; Baly, Journ. of Entom. ii. p. 436. 

 Corpus elongatum, parallelum, subcylindricum, non aut vix 

 raetallicum, squamis adpressis, apice emarginatis aut bifidis, 

 plus minusve dense vestitum. Caput thorace insertum, 

 perpendiculare ; fronte inflaia ; antennis subfiliformibus, 

 ad apicem distincte incrassatis, articulo basali incrassato, 

 secundo primo fere aequali, modice incrassato, tertio se- 

 cundo non longiori, articulis quinque ultimis leviter com- 

 pressis, latitudine gradatim crcscentibus ; ocidis promi- 

 nentibus, intus leviter sinuatis. Thorax dorso subcyliridricus, 

 margine laterali distincto, integro, rautico. Elytra parallela 

 aut subparallela, subcylindrica, striato-punctata. Pedes mo- 

 dice robusti ; fenior'ihus muticis ; iibns quatuor posticis singu- 

 lis extus prope apicem emarginatis; ungiiiculis appendicu- 

 latis aut dentatis. Prosternum latum, utrinque ab episterno 

 sulco profundo separatum ; episternis anticis scapulariformi- 

 bus. 



1. Pachnephorus clypeatus, n. sp. 



ElongatuSj subcylindricus, subparallelus, obscure cupreus, sub- 

 nitidus, squamis albidis vestitus ; labro antennarumque basi 

 rufo-piceis, epistomate basi elevato, apice vix angulato- 

 emarginato, minus rude punctato, nitido ; thorace latitudine 

 vix longiori, convexo, crebre et profunde pimctato, squamis 

 disci vittas tres formantibus, intermedia fere obsoleta ; elytris 

 subelongato-ovatis, fortiter striato-punctatis, pilis suberectis, 

 seriatim dispositis instructis, albo-squamosis, squamis hie illic 

 irregulariter congregatis. 



Long. 1§ — 2 lin. 



Hab. Gilolo. 



Head coarsely and deeply punctured, rugose, epistome thick- 

 ened at the base, surface oblique, less coarsely punctured than the 

 upper portion of the face, anterior margin slightly angulate-emai- 

 ginate ; basal half of antennae pale rufo-piceous. Thorax scarcely 

 longer than broad, sides obliquely diverging from the base to be- 

 yond the middle, thence rounded and converging to the apex ; 

 strongly convex, closely and coarsely punctured ; the scales cloth- 



