168 Phijtophaga Malayana. 



very slightly excavated below tlie basilar space; striae strongly 

 punctured on the anterior half of the surface, distinctly but rather 

 less strongly impressed on the hinder disk, sulcate on the anterior 

 disk, their interspaces slightly convex. Legs obscure fulvous, 

 more or less stained vvith piceous. 



8. Rhyparida fascial a, Baly. 

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

 Anguste oblonga, ronvexa, rufo-fulva ; abdomine rufo-piceo ; 

 antennis extrorsum, pectore, femoribus apice, tibiis, tarsis 

 elytrisque nigris ; his infra basin obsolete transversini im- 

 pressis, fascia lata communi prope medium rufo-fulva ornata ; 

 femoribus inermibus. 

 Long. 2| lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Head smooth, impunctate, lower portion of the face impressed 

 with an ill-defined longitudinal groove, whicli runs upwards from 

 the apex of the epistome ; the latter not distinctly separated from 

 the front, the apical sutures being obsolete ; anterior margin deeply 

 concave-emarginate, the angles of the emargination produced, 

 acute; surface slightly concave, smooth, impunctate; antennas 

 slender, nearly equal to the body in length, five basal joints ful- 

 vous, the rest black. Thorax rather more than twice as broad 

 as long, sides regularly rounded, scarcely converging in front, all 

 the angles armed with a short tooth ; surface smooth, impimc- 

 tate. Elytra oblong, parallel, feebly excavated below the basilar 

 space ; striae strongly and rather coarsely punctured in front, 

 punctures smaller and less deeply impressed on the middle disk, 

 almost entirely obsolete on the hinder third of the elytra; inter- 

 spaces plane. 



9. Rhjparida bnsniis, n. sp. 

 Oblonga, convexa, obscure rufo-fulva, nitida ; abdomine nigro- 

 piceo, fulvo-marginato ; pectore elytrisque nigris; his infra 

 basin obsolete impressis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis ; striis 

 ad apicem distinctis, ante medium vix sulcatis, interspatiis 

 leviter convexiusculis, utrisque basi macula parva rufo- 

 fulva ornatis ; pedibus antennisque fulvis, his extrorsum 

 nigro-piceis ; femoribus inermibus. 

 Var. A. Corpore toto obscure fulvo. 

 Long. 2^ lin. 



Hal). New Guinea (Dorey). 



Head smooth, plane, impunctate; epistome not separated from 

 the front, the apical sutures being entirely obsolete ; anterior 





