294 Phytophaga Malayana. 



the outer one placed on the lateral border, entire, the one nearest 

 the suture very short, the others all terminating about the com- 

 mencement of the hinder third of the elytron, which is very 

 smooth and impunctate ; the seventh stria from the suture be- 

 comes irregular and confused just before its termination. A line 

 on the anterior surface of the apical half of the thighs, together 

 with a similar stripe extending along the whole front edge of the 

 tibiae, piceous. 



6. Stetliomela quadripustulata, n. sp. 

 Elongata, pallide piceo-rufa, nitida, antennis fulvis, extrorsum 

 fuscis ; thorace irregulariter hie illic tenuiter punctato ; ely- 

 tris thorace vix latioribus, parallelis, regulariter punctato- 

 striatis, obscure castaneis, utrisque pustulis magnis duabus 

 fulvis, una ante medium transversa, altera prope apicem 

 irregulari, ornatis. 

 Long. 3| lin. 

 Hab. Mysol. 



Head broad ; epistome separated from the face by an angular 

 groove, longitudinal groove on the front nearly obsolete. Thorax 

 nearly three times as broad as long ; sides nearly straight and 

 parallel behind the middle, thence obliquely rounded and converg- 

 ing to the apex ; surface finely punctured, punctures irregularly 

 congregated iiere and there over the whole surface. Elytra ob- 

 long, parallel, very irregularly punctate-striate interspaces smooth, 

 impunctate. 



Genus AuGOMELA, Baly. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 2nd ser. iii. p. 253. 

 Corpus rotundato-ovatum vel ovatum, convexum. Caput modice 

 exsertum ; antennis dimidio corporis brevioribus, subincras- 

 satis, articulis 2 — 4 filiformibus, caeteris ad apicem gradatim 

 incrassatis, compressis ; pctlpis maxillaribus clavatis, apice 

 truncatis. Thorax transversus. Elytra thorace latiora, punc- 

 tato-striata. Pedes mcdiocres ; tibiis simplicibus; unguiculis 

 unidentatis. Prosternum carinatum, basi bilobatum, antice 

 obtuse truncatum vel in dentem obtusum productum. 



1. Augomela dices, Baly. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 2nd ser. v. p. 157. 

 Late ovata, convexa, aureo-aenea, nitidissima, lined verticali, 



