I 



Phytophaga Mahnjana. 195 



there with deep punctures ; apical portion of the lateral margin 

 piceous. Scutellum broadly lanceolate-ovate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, siibparallel, broadly but slightly excavated below 

 the basilar space, thickened laterally just within the outer border; 

 striae entire, deeply punctured, sulcate ; interspaces moderately 

 convex. 



Not dissimilar in form to R. plcea (ante, p. 179), but smaller 

 than that species, differently coloured, the elytra more distinctly 

 excavated below the base. 



47. Jxhyparida opacicollis. 



Rhijparida impuncticollis, Baly, Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. 



p. 11. 



Oblonga, convexa, fulva, nitida ; thorace elytris fere aequilato, 

 opaco, lateribus sub lente minute punctato, disco impunctato ; 

 elytris subnitidis, infra basin vix excavatis ; striis integris, sat 

 fortiter punctatis, ante medium subsulcatis, interspatiis con- 

 vexiusculis ; punctis pone medium minus fortiter impressis, 

 interspatiis fere planis ; femoribus muticis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Batchian. 



Head granulose, front impunctate, lower portion impressed 

 with a fine longitudinal groove ; epistome longer than broad, not 

 separated from the front, the apical sutures obsolete ; sides 

 straight and parallel, anterior margin deeply subangulate-emar- 

 ginate, angles of the notch scarcely produced, very obtuse ; sur- 

 face remotely punctured ; eyes piceous, their inner edge deeply 

 emarginate ; jaws piceous. Thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long ; sides rounded and diveryinsr from the base to beliind the 

 middle, thence oblicjuely converging to the apex, all the angles 

 tuberculate ; upper surface opake, granulose, very minutely and 

 remotely punctured on the sides. Scutellum longer than broad, 

 semiovate. Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, parallel, 

 finely granulose, nitidous, very faintly excavated below the basil.ir 

 space ; striae strongly piceo-punctate, subsulcate in front and 

 along the suture, the interspaces slightly but distinctly convex ; 

 behind the middle the punctures are finer and the interspaces 

 plane. 



I have thought it best to change the name of this insect, as the 

 one, mpuncllcollis, originally given by me to the species, is, I find 

 on closer examination, inaccurate. 



