166 Pliytophaya Alalatjana. 



with a sliort indistinct longitudinal groove; antennae pale fulvous. 

 Thorax transverse, sides rounded, converging from behind the 

 middle to the apex ; surface subremotely punctured. Elytra 

 oblong, sides parallel, convex, not excavated below the basilar 

 space ; striae deeply punctured, nearly as distinct at the apex as at 

 the base. Thigiis simple. 



Very nearly allied to R. pulchella, but more parallel, the elytra 

 not narrowed behind, their surface more deeply punctured towards 

 the apex ; the epistome broader, and its anterior margin more 

 broadly concave. 



5. Rhyparida allernaia, Baly. 

 Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 9. 



Oblonga, parallela, rufo-fulva, nitida ; antennis gracilibus, fili- 

 formibus, pallide fulvis, articulis intermediis nigris ; elytris 

 nigris, intra callum humerale et infra basin excavatis, distincte 

 punctato-striatis, striis apicem versus et supra spalium basi- 

 lare fere deletis ; femoribus inermibus. 



Long. 3 — 4 lin. 



Hab. Gilolo. 



Head minutely granulose, front impressed with a longitudinal 

 groove, which runs upwards from the apex of the epistome; the 

 latter longer than broad, sides straight, slightly converging 

 upwards, apical angle very obtuse, nearly obsolete, anterior 

 margin concave-emarginate, surface distinctly punctured ; antennas 

 slender, equal to the body in length in the $, rather shorter in 

 the $, intermediate joints black. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long; sides diver^rinij at the base to behind the middle, thence 

 rounded and obliquely converging to the apex, hinder angles 

 armed with an obtuse tooth ; surface finely but distinctly punc- 

 tured. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, parallel, basi- 

 lar space slightly thickened, bounded without and beneath by a 

 deep groove ; striae distinctly and deeply impressed, nearly ob- 

 solete on the basilar space and towards the apex of the elytron. 



6. Rhyparida Lorquinii, n. sp. (PI. V*. fig. 1.) 



Oblonga, convexa, nigra, nitida; capite, thorace, femoribusque 

 (his basi et apice exceptis) rufo- fulvis ; thorace Iseve, im- 

 punctato, margine laterali medio leviter emarginato ; elytris 

 oblongis, parallelis, infra basin leviter impressis, striis pone 

 medium deletis ; utrisque plaga subtrigonata, transversa, 



