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race remote sat foititer punctato ; elytrls postice paullo at- 

 tenuatis, sat profunda punctato-striatis; episternis anticis in 

 medio iion elevatis. 



Long. 1 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Vertex granulose, opake, lower portion of the front nitidous, dis- 

 tantly punctured ; eye bordered on its upper and inner margin by a 

 deeply sulcate groove, which extends downwards and inwards 

 along the upper edge of the encarpa ; four lower joints of an- 

 tennae fulvous. Thorax at the base scarcely broader than long, 

 conic; sides obliquely converging from base to apex, very slightly 

 rounded ; surface somewhat finely and distantly punctured on the 

 disk, deeply impressed wiih round punctures on the sides. Elytra 

 much broader than the thorax, twice its length, scarcely narrowed 

 towards the apex, convex, deeply punctate-striate. 



9. Siethotes atra, n. sp. 

 Ovata, valde convexa, nigra, nitida, antennis piceis, basi fulvis ; 

 thorace transverso, subconico, sat remote fortiter punctato ; 

 elytris thorace latioribus, postice attenuatis, sat profunde 

 punctato-striatis ; pedibus modice elongatis, nigro-purpureis ; 

 episternis anticis in medio non elevatis. 

 Long. 1 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Head distinctly but not very closely punctured, the punctures 

 distantly placed on the epistome and lower portion of the front, 

 the extreme upper part of the vertex impresso-strigose ; epistome 

 forming a single piece with the front ; inner and upper margin of 

 the eye bordered by a deep groove, which at its lower end runs 

 obliquely downwards and inwards for a short distance along the 

 upper edge of the encarpa. Thorax distinctly broader than long, 

 subconic ; sides slightly rounded, obliquely converging from behind 

 the middle to the apex; surface coarsely but remotely punctured. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, twice its length, tapering towards 

 the apex, convex, striae deeply punctured, puncturing rather 

 finer towards the apex. 



Genus Nodina, Motsch. 

 Etudes Ent. vii. p. 108. 

 Corpus breviter ovatum, valde convexum. Caput breve, thorace 

 profunde immersum ; antennis filiibrmibus, dimidio corporis 



