Phytojihaya Malayana. 197 



sat fortiter punctatis, pone medium minus distinctis, apicem 

 versus fere deletis; interspatiis atitice obsolete convexius- 

 culis, postice planis ; femoribus muticis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Java. 



Head finely granulose, minutely and distantly punctured ; lower 

 portion of front impressed with the usual longitudinal groove ; 

 epistome not longer than broad, not separated from the front, the 

 sutural angles obsolete; sides straight and parallel; anterior 

 margin concave- emarginate, angles of the notch not produced, very 

 obtuse ; surface more strongly punctured than the front ; jaws 

 black; eyes prominent. Thorax rather more than twice as broad 

 as long ; sides rounded, converging from the middle to the apex, 

 apical angle obsolete, hinder angle armed with an obtuse tooth ; 

 surface nitidous, somewhat closely punctured. Scutellum longer 

 than broad, semiovate. Elytra not broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, not excavated below the basilar space ; striae strongly 

 punctured on the anterior disk, more finely punctured posteriorly, 

 nearly obsolete towards the apex ; interspaces obsoletely convex 

 in front, plane posteriorly. 



Nearly allied in form to R. tibialis (ante^ p. 183); separated 

 from that species by the shorter epistome and by the absence of 

 sutural lines between it and the front; the single specimen from 

 which I have drawn the above description is a ? , the ^ 1 do not 

 know. 



50. Rhyparida ohlilerala, n. sp. 



Elongata, parallela, nigro-picea, nitida ; antennis flavis ; tarsis 

 piceo-fulvis ; thorace elytris aequilato, tenuiter punctato ; 

 elytris parallelis, infra basin leviter excavatis ; striis ante 

 medium distincte punctatis, pone medium indistinctis, apicem 

 versus deletis, 9no ad 12mum fere omnino obliteratis ; inter- 

 spatiis planis ; femoribus dente parvo armatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Java. 



Head granulose, lower portion of front impressed with a 

 longitudinal groove ; epistome separated from the front, longer 

 than broad, subcampanulate, anterior border broadly concave- 

 emarginate ; jaws black ; labrum fulvous. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long; sides rounded, obliquely converging from behind 

 the middle to the apex ; anterior angles obsolete, hinder angles 

 armed with a subacute tooth ; above transversely convex, sides 



