210 Phytophaga Malay ana. 



69. Rhypar'ida Celebensis, n. sp. 



Subelongata, convexa, picea, nitida ; thorace subcrebre punctato, 

 utrinque nigro-piceo-maculato ; elytris thorace multo latiori- 

 biiSj oblongis, infra basin excavatis ; striis ante medium dis- 

 tincte, pone medium tenuissime punctatis, interspatiis planis, 

 sutura calloque bumerali nigro-piceis ; femoribus subtus dente 

 acute armatis ; femoribus tibiisque basi obscure fulvis. 

 Long. I J lin. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



Head moderately prominent, upper part of vertex nigro-piceous, 

 surface impressed with shallow oblong punctures ; lower portion of 

 front impressed with a faint longitudinal groove ; epistome not 

 separated at its apex from the front, semiovate, anterior border 

 very faintly subangulate-emarginate ; jaws nigro-piceous ; basal 

 joints of antennae fulvous. Thorax half as broad again as long ; 

 sides rounded, converging from behind the middle to the apex, 

 all the angles tuberculate ; upper surface transversely convex at 

 the base, sides obliquely deflexed in front; minutely granulose, 

 strongly and closely punctured on the sides, the interspaces elevate- 

 reticulate; disk more finely and less closely punctured. Scutellum 

 oblong, its apex rounded. Elytra much broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, broadly excavated below the basilar space, distinctly 

 sulcate within the humeral callus, the latter thickened ; striae 

 entire, distinctly punctured on the anterior disk, very finely 

 punctured and only visible with a lens behind the middle ; inter- 

 spaces plane, 



70. Rhypanda lateralis, n. sp. 



Elongata, convexa, picea, nitida; antennis extrorsum fuscis; 

 thorace longitudine vix latiori, subcylindrico, lateribus antice 

 declivibus ; elytris thorace multo latioribus, infra basin et 

 intra callum huraerale excavatis ; striis sat fortiter punctatis, 

 apicem versus tenuissime punctatis, fere deletis ; interspatiis 

 planis ; utrisque costa sublaterali lata interrupta, a callo 

 bumerali fere ad medium elytri extensa, instructis ; femori- 

 bus posterioribus subtus dente brevi armatis. 



Long, if lin. 



Hab. Manilla, 



Head prominent, finely granulose, distinctly but distantly punc- 

 tured, more closely punctured on the epistome, the latter in 



