Phyto'phaga Malayana, 201 



striis integris, sulcatis, interspatiis convexis ; sutura vittulis- 

 que nonnullis piceis ; femoribus subtus dente parvo armatis. 



LoncT. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Sarawak. 



Head finely punctured ; eplstome broader than long, dis- 

 tinctly separated from the front, pentagonal, sides slightly con- 

 verging backwards ; anterior border trisinuate, angles of the 

 medial notch acute, scarcely produced ; surface more coarsely 

 punctured than the front ; lower end of the latter impressed with 

 a deep longitudinal groove ; eyes and apex of jaws black. Thorax 

 nearly twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, scarcely converg- 

 ing in front, middle of lateral border faintly sinuate ; surface 

 nitidous, finely but not closely punctured, stained on either side 

 of the disk with a faint ill-defined piceous patch. Scutellum longer 

 than broad, semiovate. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, 

 parallel, slightly excavated below the basilar space ; striae entire, 

 sulcate, somewhat strongly punctured, the interspaces convex; 

 a sutural stripe, a marginal vitta abbreviated above and below, 

 a central vitta which occupies the middle third of the fifth 

 and sixth interspaces, and two short vittae, one placed on the 

 humeral callus, the other halfway between the latter and the 

 suture, piceous. 



5Q . Rhyparlda vitlipenms, Baly. 

 Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 9. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, subtus nigro-picea, nitida, supra 

 piceo-fulva ; thoracis plagis duabus, elytrorumque sutura, 

 linea marginali vittaque disci ad basin abrupte dilatata, ante 

 apicem desinente, nigro-piceis ; elytris infra basin obsolete 

 transversim impressis ; striis sulcatis, interspatiis elevatis, 

 subcostatis ; femoribus subtus dente parvo armatis. 



Long. 2 1 lin. 



Hab. Flores. 



Head granulose, upper portion rugose ; sides straight, con- 

 verging backwards; anterior border trigonate ; front impressed 

 with a longitudinal groove, which runs upwards from the apex 

 of the epistome ; antennae pale fulvous, their apex fuscous. 

 Thorax nearly twice as broad as long ; sides regularly rounded, 

 scarcely narrowed in front, all the angles armed with a short 



