200 Phytophaga 3Ialayana. 



piece with the front, its anterior border broadly concave-emargi- 

 nate. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded and con- 

 verging from base to apex ; anterior angles nearly obsolete, 

 hinder angles armed with an obtuse tooth ; surface very finely 

 granulose, minutely and distantly punctured. Scutellum broadly 

 semiovate, its apex subangulate. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 convex, not excavated below the basilar space; striae entire, 

 the puncturing continued of nearly equal depth to the apex ; 

 interspaces plane, very faintly convex anteriorly. 



54. Rlnjparida picta, n. sp. 



Oblonga, convexa, piceo-fulva, nitida ; antennis (basi exceptd) 

 nigris \ abdomine, pedibus anticis, femoribusque quatuor 

 posticis piceis; elytris thorace multo latioribus, infra basin 

 excavatis, striis integris, basi et apicem versus minus fortiter 

 impressis ; nigro-piceis, basi et apice pallidioribus, utrisque 

 plagd humerali fulva ornatis ; femoribus muticis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Head smooth, impunctate ; frontal groove obsolete ; epistome 

 tnuch longer than broad, wedge-shaped, not entirely separated 

 from the front, the extreme apical suture obsolete ; anterior border 

 concave-emarginate, angles of the notch produced, obtuse ; apex 

 of jaws black; antennae slightly but distinctly thickened towards 

 the apex, two basal joints pale fulvous. Thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long ; sides regularly rounded, all the angles tubercu" 

 late ; surface smooth, impunctate. Elytra nitidous, deeply exca- 

 vated below the basilar space and within the humeral callus ; 

 piceous, paler at the extreme base and at the apex, each elytron 

 with a subtrigonate fulvous patch, which commences on the hu- 

 meral callus and extends downwards as far as the middle of the 

 disk, its inner edge oblique, deeply concave-emarginate; basilar 

 space slightly thickened, the punctures covering its surface as well 

 as those towards the apex of the elytron very fine and indistinct. 



55. Rkyparida Wallacei, n. sp. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, piceo-fulva, nitida; thorace tenuiter 

 subremote punctato, utrinque plaga obsoleia picea instructo ; 

 elytris oblongis, thorace latioribus, infra basin vix impressis 5 



