256 Phytoplwga Malayana. 



sides nearly straight, obliquely converging from base to apex ; 

 anterior angles acute, anterior margin deeply sinuate on either 

 side ; subconic, sides strongly deflexed in front, surfice finely 

 and subremotely punctured. Elytra much broader at the base 

 than the thorax, converging backwards, apex rounded ; hu- 

 meral callus prominent ; surface regularly punctate-striate, inter- 

 spaces plane ; on the outer margin the striae are sulcate, and 

 the interspaces thickened. 



2. Slethotes nigroccerulea, Baly. 



Pyropida nigroccerulea, Baly, Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. 



p. 16. 



Ovata, postice attenuata, valde convexa, nigro-caerulea, nitida, 

 antennis nigris, basi fulvis ; thorace conico, subremote punc- 

 tato ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis ; pedibus niodice elon- 

 gatis. 

 Long. 2| lin. 

 Hab. Ceram. 



Smaller and rather narrower than the last species; thorax 

 rather broader ; in all other characters precisely similar. Possibly 

 only a local variety of S. elegantitla. 



3. Stethofes apicicorms, n. sp. 



Ovata, valde convexa, nigra, nitida, tihiis tarsisque rufo-piceis, 

 supra laete purpurea ; antennis subfiliformibus, fulvis, ar- 

 ticulis intermediis nigris, tribus ultimis albis ; thorace latitudine 

 paullo latiori, subconico, tenuiter remote punctato ; elytris late 

 oblongo-ovatis, distincte sed tenuiter punctato-striatis ; epi- 

 sternis anticis non longitudinaliter elevatis. 

 Long. I3 lin. 

 Hab. Aru Islands. 



Head blueish-green, middle portion broadly excavated on either 

 side above the eye, slightly swollen, distinctly but not very closely 

 punctured ; antennae rather more than half the length of the body, 

 slightly dilated and compressed towards the apex, five lower joints 

 fulvous, the sixth to the eighth black, three upper joints white. 

 Thorax slightly broader at the base than long, subconic; surface 

 very remotely and finely punctured. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, scarcely narrowed posteriorly, their apex broadly rounded, 

 surface finely but distinctly punctate-striate. 



