Phytophaga Malay ana. 189 



surface slightly irregular, finely but deeply punctured ; jaws black ; 

 labrum obscure fulvous; antennffi pale fulvous, their outer half 

 fuscous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, ob- 

 liquely converging from behind the middle to the apex ; apical 

 angle obtuse, unarmed, hinder angle armed with a short obtuse 

 tooth ; surface finely but deeply punctured. Scutellum scarcely 

 broader at the base than long, broadly semiovate. Elytra not 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, very feebly excavated below 

 the basilar space ; striae entire, strongly punctured and subsulcate 

 in front, the puncturing finer below the middle, nearly obsolete 

 near the apex ; interspaces slightly convex in front, plane on the 

 hinder disk ; the punctures dark piceous. 



Tliis species agrees in size with R, Aruensis {ante, p. 186) and 

 its allies; in the form of the thorax, and in the absence of tuber- 

 cles on its anterior angles, with R. tibialis {ante, p. 183) and allied 

 forms. 



38. R/iyparidafulvipes, n. sp. 

 Subelongata, convexa, j)icea, nitida ; antennis, elytrorum apice 

 pedibusque obscure fulvis ; thorace elytris fere aequilato, sat 

 fortiter punctato ; elytris lateribus fere parallelis, infra basin 

 non excavatis ; striis integris, leviter sulcatis, sat profunde 

 punctatis, interspatiis convexiusculis, iis ad latera subcos- 

 tatis ; femoribus paullo incrassatis, muticis. 

 Long. 2f lin. 

 Hab. Ke. 



Head short, broad ; front distinctly and somewhat closely 

 punctured, its lower end impressed with a very short longitudinal 

 groove, which runs upwards from the apex of the epistome ; the 

 latter much broader than long, distinctly se|)arated from the front, 

 pentagonal ; sides rounded and converging backwards, the pos- 

 tero-lateral angles obsolete; anterior border broadly concave- 

 emarginate, each angle of the notch produced into a short 

 subacute tooth ; surface concave, deeply punctured ; labrum 

 fulvous ; jaws black. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long ; 

 sides regularly rounded, scarcely converging in front, all the 

 angles tuberculate ; surface deeply but not very closely punc- 

 tured. Scutellum longer than broad, narrowly semiovate. Elytra 

 slightly broader than the thorax, subparallel, not excavated below 

 the basilar space ; striae entire, subsulcate, strongly punctured, the 

 punctures of nearly equal depth up to the apex ; interspaces 

 very slightly convex. Thighs unarmed, 



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