Phytophaga Malayana. 205 



minus fortiter impressis ; interspatiis convexis, prope apicem 

 fere plain's ; femoribus subtus dente acuto arrnatis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab, Sulu Islands, New Guinea. 



Head granidose, coarsely and deeply but not closely punctured ; 

 vertex rufo-fulvous, swollen, convex, impressed in the middle 

 with a large fovea, from the lower end of which runs a short 

 longitudinal groove; epistome obscure piceous, not separated 

 from the front, the apical sutures obsolete, sides straight, 

 converging backwards, anterior border broadly concave-emar- 

 ginate, edges of the notch slightly produced, subacute ; eyes 

 prominent, their inner edges very slightly emarginate ; jaws 

 black ; antenna} fuscous, two lower joints flavous. Thorax nearly 

 half as broad again as long; sides diverging for a sliort distance 

 at the base, thence obliquely converging and slightly rounded to 

 the apex ; anterior angles subtuberculate, hinder angles armed 

 with an obtuse tooth ; above subcylindrical, sides obliquely de- 

 flexed from behind the middle to the apex ; surface deeply 

 and closely punctured on the sides, punctures on the disk 

 finer and less crowded. Scutellum longer than broad, its apex 

 rounded. Elytra much broader than the thorax, opake, closely 

 granulose, broadly excavated below the basilar space, the latter 

 slightly thickened ; striae sulcate, strongly punctured, sulci less 

 deeply impressed and more finely punctured behind the middle ; 

 interspaces convex, flattened towards the apex ; suture narrowly 

 edged with nigro-piceous. 



The form of the thorax in this insect closely approaches that of 

 R. sumptuosa, the first species in the genus (ante, p. 163). 



62. Rhypar'ida elevata, n. sp. 

 Subquadrato-ovata, valde convexa, rufo-picea, purpureo-tincta, 

 nitida ; antennis fuscis, basi pallide fulvis ; epistomate ele- 

 vato ; thorace impunctato ; elytris purpureis, thorace latiori- 

 bus, parallelis, infra basin vix excavatis ; striis integris, sat 

 fortiter punctatis, leviter sulcatis ; interspatiis leviter con- 

 vexiusculis; femoribus incrassatis, dente valido arrnatis. 

 Long. 1|- lin. 

 Hab. Waigiou. 



Head smooth, impunctate, the middle of the front above the 

 eyes with a short longitudinal ridge; epistome raised above 

 the level of the front, not separated at its apex from the latter, 



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