208 Phytophaga Molayana. 



its anterior border deeply concaveemarginate, angles of the notch 

 produced, obtuse, centre of front impressed with a faint longitu- 

 dinal groove ; jaws black. Thorax twice as broad as long; sides 

 rounded and converging from base to apex ; anterior angles ob- 

 soletely, hinder distinctly tuberculate ; above transversely convex, 

 sides obliquely deflexed in front ; surface finely granulose, im- ] 

 pressed here and there with a few deep punctures ; disk, together 

 with the extreme outer edge of the lateral border, nigro-piceous. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong-subovate, excavated 

 below the basihar space and within the humeral callus, the latter 

 thickened ; striae entire, more finely punctured towards the apex ; 

 interspaces plane, obsoletely convex on the inner disk in front; 

 on the outer border of each elytron is a broad nigro-piceous vitta, 

 which extends from the base nearly to the apex ; at its basal end 

 it is more or less marked with fulvous ; a short distance below the 

 base it sends a broad ramus inwards nearly to the suture, and 

 just before its apex it is again produced inwards, although not 

 so far as before. 



66. Rliyparida pcwviila, n. sp. 

 Oblonga, convexa, fulva, nitida; thorace impunctato ; elytris 

 thorace latioribus, infra basin excavatis ; striis infra basin 

 distincte punctatis, basi ipsa et apicem versus omnino deletis ; 

 femoribus subtus dente parvo armatis. 

 Long. 1 — \\ lin. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



Head smooth, impunctate ; epistome wedge-shaped, forming a 

 single piece with the front, anterior border concave-emarginate, 

 angles of the notch slightly produced, very obtuse ; longitudinal 

 groove on front obsolete ; jaws piceous. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long; sides rounded, scarcely converging in front; hinder angles 

 armed with a subacute tooth, anterior tuberculate ; surface shining, 

 impunctate, lateral border narrowly edged with piceous. Scutellum 

 longer than broad, subtrigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, excavated below the basilar space 

 and within the humeral callus, the latter thickened ; basilar space 

 also thickened, impunctate ; stria distinctly punctured below the 

 basilar space and on the middle disk, below the latter the punc- 

 turing becomes very fine and is entirely lost towards the apex ; 

 a single stria next the suture is entire and sulcate. 



This species at first sight has greatly the aspect of Nodostoma 

 Iceve {post, p. 220). 



