Phytophaga Malaycma. 203 



versus fere deletis ; interspatiis fere planis ; femoribus anticis 



spind acuta, posticis dente parvo arinatis. 

 Long. 2 liii. 

 Hab. Java. 



Head deeply and closely punctured on either side the upper 

 part of the front, lower portion of the front impressed with a 

 deep longitudinal groove, supra-ocular grooves deeply excavated ; 

 epistome not separated at its apex from the front, longer than 

 broad, wedge-shaped, anterior border slightly concave-emarginate, 

 surface coarsely rugose-punctate ; apex of jaws black. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, subangulate behind tlie 

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

 tuberculate ; above transversely convex, sides obliquely deflexed 

 in front; surflice nitidous, finely graiiulose, impressed with coarse 

 punctures, lateral margin slightly dilated, piceous. Scuteilum 

 scarcely longer than broad, trigonate, sides rounded. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax, subovate, nitidous. slightly excavated 

 below the basilar space ; striae entire, piceo-punctate, punctures 

 large and deeply impressed on the anterior disk, more finely im- 

 pressed below the middle, very fine and nearly invisil)le towards 

 the apex ; interspaces plane, very faintly convex on the anterior 

 disk. 



59. Rhyparida sulcata, Baly. 

 Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 8. 



Oblonga, convexa, nitida, pallide rufo- aut fulvo-picea ; thorace 

 fortiter crebre punctato, longitudinaliter elevato-strigoso, 

 strigis inter se reticulatis ; elytris obscure fulvis, infra basin 

 obsolete transversim depressis, sulcato-striatis ; striis fortiter 

 punctatis, punctis piceis ; interspatiis Isevibus, convexis ; 

 pedibus antennarumqne basi obscure fulvis ; femoribus 

 subtus dente minuto armatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Head coarsely punctured ; epistome not separated from the 

 front, its anterior border armed with two short obtuse teeth, 

 their interspaces concave ; antennae slender, filiform ; eyes pro- 

 minent, bounded above by a deep groove, which runs obliquely 

 downwards on the face to join the apex of the lateral border of the 

 epistome. Thorax rather broader than long ; sides divero-in"' for 

 a short distance from their base, then obliquely converging and 



