190 Phytopliaga Malay ana. 



This species is very similar in the form both of the body and 

 epistome to R. jjulc/iclla (ante, p. 1G5) ; it is possible that it may 

 be a local variety of that insect. 



39. Rhi/panda sui^pecta, n. sp. 



Snbelongafa, convexa, piceo-fulva, nitida ; antennis extrorsum 

 genibusque infnscatis; thorace disco insequali, ad latera 

 irregulariter sed leviter punctato ; elytris infra basin ob- 

 solete transversim impressis, striis inregris, ante medium sat 

 fortiter, pone medium minus profunde punctatis, interspatiis 

 obsolete convexiusculis ; femoribiis tnuticis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Front very minutely punctured, impressed at its lower end with 

 a short deep longitudinal groove ; epistome not longer than bfoad, 

 pentagonal, not entirely separated from the front, the apical 

 sutures, although deeply impressed, being more or less inter- 

 rupted ; sides straight and parallel, anterior border deeply and 

 somewhat broadly concave-emarginate, angles of the emargination 

 produced, acute; surf ice coarsely and deeply but distantly punc- 

 tured ; jaws black. Thorax scarcely more than twice as broad 

 as long ; sides rounded, converging in front, all the angles tuber- 

 culate ; surface very slightly unequal, distinctly punctured, the 

 punctures fine on the disk, coarser and deeper on the sides, con- 

 gregated here and there into irregular patches. Scutellum scarcely 

 longer than broad, subpentagonal, sides obliquely converging 

 backwards. Elytra broader than the thorax, nearly parallel, nar- 

 rowly oblong, slightly but somewhat broadly excavated helow 

 the basilar space ; striae entire, slightly sulcate, in front deeply 

 punctured, and the interspaces slightly convex ; posteriorly the 

 striae are less strongly punctured, and the interspaces obsoletely 

 convex. 



Narrower than R. fulvipes ; the sides of the thorax more regu- 

 larly rounded, the striae on the elytra more regular near the apex. 



40. Rhtjparida placida, n. sp. 



Oblonga, convexa, piceo-fulva, subnitida ; thorace subopaco, 

 sub lente minutissime punctato ; elytris infra basin vix ex- 

 cavatis ; striis integris, sat fortiter punctatis, subsulcatis, 

 punctis pone medium minus fortiter impressis ; interspatiis 



