Pliylophaga Malnyana. 167 



prope medium posita, ad marginem adfixa, rufo-fulva ; femo- 

 ribus inernubus. 



Var. A. Elytiis totis nigris. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Head smooth, impnnctate, front impressed just above the apex 

 of the epislome with a distinct longitudinal fovea ; epistome 

 transverse, pentagonal, not distinctly separated from the face, the 

 apical sutures obsolete, apical angle very obtuse ; anterior border 

 produced on either side into a very short tooth, the space between 

 the teeth rather deeply concave-emarginate ; surface finely punc- 

 tured ; antennae slender, filiform, fulvous at the base, their outer 

 two-thirds nigro-piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides 

 straight and nearly parallel from the base to behind the middle, 

 thence rounded and converging to the apex, all the angles armed 

 with a small acute tooth ; about the middle of the border is a 

 small notch, which is more or less defined in different specimens, 

 sometimes being entirely obsolete. Elytra broadly oblong, paral- 

 lel, moderately impressed below the basilar space; the striae 

 strongly impressed on the basal half of the disk, almost entirely 

 obsolete on the hinder portion. 



7. Rhijparida nigripennis, Baly. 

 Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 10. 



Subelongata, convexa, pallide rufo-picea, nitida ; antennis nigris, 

 basi fulvis; elytris nigris, infra basin vix transversim im- 

 pressis, striis sat fortiter punctatis, ante medium obsolete 

 sulcatis, pone medium minus fortiter impressis ; femoribus 

 inermibus. 

 Long, 3 lin. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



Head minutely punctured ; epistome scarcely broader than 

 long, distinctly separated from the front, its apical sutures being 

 entire, upper angle obtuse ; from its apex a short longitudinal 

 groove runs upwards on the face; lateral margins nearly 

 straight, slightly converging backwards, anterior border wiili 

 its middle portion deeply concave-emarginate, the angles of the 

 notch produced, acute ; surface coarsely punctured ; antennje 

 slender, filiform. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, 

 obliquely converging from behind the middle to the apex, 

 all the angles armed with a small tooth ; surface somewhat 

 irregularly but not coarsely punctured. Elytra oblong, parallel, 



