180 Pliylophaya Malayana. 



of the labrum feebly trilobate; four lower joints of antennae 

 obscure fulvous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded 

 and converging froni base to apex ; anterior angles armed with an 

 obtuse tooth, hinder angles tuberculate ; surface finely granulose, 

 sparingly impressed here and there with large deep punctures. 

 Scutelhim scarcely longer than broad ; sides converging towards 

 the apex, which is subacute. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, scarcely excavated below the basilar space ; striae strongly 

 punctured and subsidcate on the anterior disk, the punctures 

 gradually becoming finer posteriorly until they are almost obsolete 

 near the apex ; interspaces finely punctured, slightly but distinctly 

 convex in front, plane on the hinder disk. 



26. Rhypar'ida inconstans, Baly. 

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

 Oblonga, convexa, subnitida ; thorace subcrebre punctato ; 

 elytris thorace paullo latioribus, parallelis, infra basin leviter 

 transversim excavatis ; striis integris, sat fortiter punctatis, 

 vix sulcatis, pone medium minus forliter punctatis ; inter- 

 spatiis obsolete convexiusculis, prope suturam fere planis *, 

 femoribus muticis. 

 Var. A. Corpore rufo-fulvo ; elytris nigro-piceis, apice late 



rufo-fulvo. 

 Var. B. Corpore toto fusco-fulvo. 

 Var. C. Corpore piceo ; pedibus obscure rufis. 

 Long. 3 — 31 lin. 

 Hab. Batcbian, Ternate. 



Head granulose, finely punctured ; epistome entirely sepa- 

 rated from the front, scarcely broader than long, pentagonal ; 

 postero-lateral angles rounded ; sides straight and parallel, slightly 

 rounded near the apex ; anterior border deeply concave-emargi- 

 nate, produced on either side of the excavation into a short tooth ; 

 surface punctured in a similar manner to the front, the latter im- 

 pressed with the usual longitudinal groove ; labrum and antennae 

 obscure rufo-fulvous ; jaws black. Thorax more than twice as 

 broad as long ; sides nearly straight and parallel at the base, 

 rounded and converging from the middle to the apex; hinder 

 angles thickened, anterior produced into a short obtuse tooth ; 

 surface granulose, distinctly and somewhat closely punctured. 

 Scutellum broadly semiovate, its apex rounded. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, parallel, very feebly excavated below the basilar 



