PInjtophaga Maloyana. 173 



lonfjer than broad, apical sutures entire, apical angle acute, sides 

 straight and parallel, slightly rounded and converging at the apex; 

 anterior border deeply coiicave-emarginate, angles of the emar- 

 ginaiion produced, obtuse ; surface slightly depressed; antennae 

 slender, filiform, three lower joints obscure fulvous, the rest 

 black ; labrum fulvous ; jaws black. Thorax more than twice 

 as broad as long, sides rounded and converging from base to 

 apex, all the angles armed with an obtuse tubercle ; above trans- 

 versely convex, distinctly but not very closely punctured. Scu- 

 tellum scarcely broader than long, smooth, impressed near the 

 apex with a distinct fovea. Elytra slightly broader than the 

 thorax, parallel ; upper surface obsoletely impressed below the 

 basilar space, distinctly sulcate within the humeral callus, the 

 latter subprominent: striae entire, coarsely and deeply punctured 

 in front, finely punctured on the hinder disk ; interspaces plane, 

 finely and somewhat closely punctured ; on the suture is a faint 

 violaceous line, surface on the lateral margin also with a violaceous 

 reflexion. 



16, Rhypar'ida mgrocenea, Baly. 

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

 Anguste oblonga, convexa, nitida, subtus nigro-picea, nitore vio- 

 laceo-seneo vix induta ; thorace elytrisque nigro-asneis, illo 

 distincte sed tenuiter punctato ; his thorace distincte latiori- 

 bus, parallelis, infra basin leviter et intra callum humerale 

 magis fortiter impressis ; striis integris, ante medium sat 

 fortiter, pone medium tenuissime punctatis ; femoribus mu- 

 ticis. 

 Long. 4^ lin. 



Hab. Southern part of New Guinea. 



Head granulose, coarsely punctured ; epistome longer than 

 broad, distinctly separated from the front, the apical sutures en- 

 tire, sides straight and parallel, slightly rounded and converging at 

 the apex ; anterior border deeply concave-emarginate, the angles 

 of the emargination produced, obtuse ; surface slightly depressed, 

 punctured in a similar way to the front, the latter impressed 

 with a short deep longitudinal groove, which runs upwards from 

 the apex of the epistome ; antennae slender, three or four basal 

 joints obscure fulvous, the rest nigro-piceous. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long, sides rounded, and converging from base to apex, 

 all the angles thickened ; above transversely convex, sides ob- 

 liquely deflexed in front ; surface minutely granulose, coarsely 



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