Pliytoj^haga Malayann. 175 



talis, minus distinctis ; interspatiis leviter convexiusculis ; 

 feinoribus muticis. 



Long. 21 lin. 



Hab. Northern part of New Guinea. 



Head minutely granulose, very finely and very remotely punc- 

 tured ; face narrowed between the eyes, impressed in the middle 

 with a longitudinal groove, which runs upwards from the apex of 

 theepistome; the latter much longer than broad, not separated 

 from the front, its apical sutures being entirely obsolete ; sides 

 straight, slightly converging backwards; anterior border mode- 

 rately concaveemarginate ; surface remotely punctured; labrum 

 piceo-fulvous, its anterior margin deeply notched ; jaws black ; 

 eyes larger than in R. purpurea; antennaa black, three lower 

 joints obscure fulvous. Thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long ; sides rounded and converging from base to apex ; anterior 

 angles acute, subtubercidate ; hinder angles thickened ; surface 

 very minutely granulose, very sparingly impressed here and there 

 with small but deep punctures. Scutellum rather longer than 

 broad, semiovate, its apex acute. Elytra similar in fortn to those 

 of/?, purpurea; punctures placed more distantly on the striae, larger 

 and more deeply impressed in front, finer behind the middle than 

 in that species, the interspaces less convex. 



R. fraternalh differs also from R. purpurea in the sparingly 

 punctured thorax, the different form of the epistome, and in the 

 narrow space between the eyes. 



19. Rhyparida scutellata, n. sp. 

 Subelongata, convexa, viridi-cserulea, nitida ; corpore suhtus, 

 scutello antennisque pallide rufo-])iceis, his basi fulvis ; tho- 

 race sat fortiter, subremote punctato ; elytris thorace multo 

 latioribus, parallelis, infra basin obsolete excavatis, striis 

 integris, ante medium fortiter, pone medium subtenuiter 

 punctatis, interspatiis planis, minute sed subremote punctatis ; 

 femoribus muticis. 

 Long. Sg lin. 

 Hab. Waigiou. 



Head remotely granidose, finely and remotely punctured; front 

 impressed with a longitudinal groove ; apex of epistome continu- 

 ous with and on the same plane with the front, the apical sutures 

 being entirely obsolete ; sides of epistome straight and parallel ; 

 anterior border slightly angulate-emarginate ; labrum fulvous; 



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