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antice sulcatis ; interspatiis ante medium convexiusculis, 

 postice planis ; femoribus subtiis dente minuto armatis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Tondano. 



Head smooth, nearly impunctate, lower portion of front im- 

 pressed with a faint longitudinal groove ; epistome separated 

 from the front, longer than broad, wedge-shaped ; anterior border 

 moderately concave-emarginate, angles of the notch scarcely pro- 

 duced, obtuse; surface finely but subremotely punctured; jaws 

 black ; antennae nearly equal to the body in length, outer two- 

 thirds dark fuscous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides 

 rounded, converging from the middle to the apex, all the angles 

 armed with a small obtuse tooth ; surface minutely and remotely 

 punctured. Scutellum longer than broad. Elytra broader than 

 the thorax, broadly oblong, not impressed below the basilar space ; 

 striae entire, somewhat deeply punctured and sulcate in front, 

 the interspaces moderately convex; on the hinder disk the striae 

 more finely punctured, and the interspaces plane. 



44. Rhyparida amahilis, n. sp. 



Subelongata, parallela, pallide fulva, subnitida ; mandibulis nigris ; 

 thorace opaco, sub lente minute sed remote punctato ; elytris 

 thorace vix latioribus, infra basin non excavatis, minute granu- 

 losis ; striis integris, pone medium minus fortiter punctatis, 

 ante medium leviter sulcatis ; interspatiis antice leviter con- 

 vexiusculis ; femoribus subtus dente minuto armatis. 



Long. 2| lin. 



Hab. Northern part of New Guinea. 



Head granulose ; vertex swollen, convex, its upper part fur- 

 nished with a longitudinal ridge ; lower portion impressed with a 

 short longitudinal groove ; epistome forming a single piece with the 

 front, its surface more strongly punctured than the latter; ante- 

 rior border broadly concave-emarginate, angles of the notch 

 slightly produced, obtuse. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides 

 rounded, obliquely converging from behind the middle to the 

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

 lose, very finely and remotely punctured. Scutellum oblong, its 

 apex subangulate. Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, not excavated below the basilar space ; striae entire, lcs'=* 

 strongly punctured behind the middle; interspaces in front slightly 

 convex, 



