( ^18 ) 



Rostrum twice as liroinl as long, densely pubescent, with trace of a slioit 

 mesial carina, mesially imiiressed beneath. Anteunal segments with a few apical 

 bristles, segment ts half the length of 3, 9 = 10 = 11 = twice 8 and about twice 

 as long as broad, 9 and Hi pear-shaped, 11 ovate. Prothorax obviously punctured 

 like head, carina nearly straight above, strongly rounded at sides, not forming 

 an angle, side of thorax simply rounded before base in dorsal aspect. Elytra 

 broader than prothorax, planate from suture to fourth stripe, interstices 3 and 4 

 raised into a jironiinent rounded tubercle before declivous apex ; middle of base 

 convex, but not tubercnlate. Pj'gidium a little longer than broad. Intercoxal 

 process of mesostcniura rounded. 



Length, 11 mm. 



Hab. Milne Ba}-, Brit. New Guinea. 



One ?, received from Messrs. Staudingcr and Bang-Haas. 



11. Apatenia phaeura spec. nov. 



cJ. Similar to A. paUiiliccp.^ (1895) .lord, from British New Guinea. Eyes 

 rather closer together. Sides of prothorax less extended gre)'. Elytra without 

 tubercles in apical half ; basal convexity less ])rominent, and declivous apex and 

 pygidium uniformly clayish grey. Antenna and legs rnfescent. 



Length, (> mm. 



Ilab. Kapaur, Dutch New Guinea (W. Doherty). 



yl. phaeura, paUidiceps, iiisigiiis, and the following ptistidatn are perhaps all 

 geographical forms of one species. 



12. Apatenia pustulata si)ec. nov. 



? . Also close to .1. pallidiceps. Antenna and legs rufous, the latter annulated 

 with black-brown. Carina of rostrum jiractically absent, being vestigial only in 

 ajiical half. Occiput coarsely rugate-punctate. Pronotum different in i)attern ; 

 antescutellar buflf spot continued to near middle, bordered with black, a transverse 

 oblique sjiot at each side of middle line and several lateral spots also black, more or 

 less obviously edged with grey. Elytra nearly as in insignia (1895) .Jord., marked 

 with a large apical sutural black spot and with fewer black dots in sutnral inter- 

 space ; the two dorsal anteapical tubercles as in insignis, different in position 

 from pdllidiceps ; the inner one situated in third interspace, as high as the median 

 tubercle which stands in the same interspace ; the outer tubercle smaller, situated 

 in the fifth interspace, more frontal in position than the inner one. Abdomen with 

 three rows of partly confluent black-brown spots on each side. 



Antennal segments 6 to 8 very short. 



Ilah. Dammer I., Banda Sea, xii. 98 (H. KUhn). 



One ?. 



13. Apatenia olivacea spec. nov. 

 (?. Black, uniformly covered with a greyish olive pubescence, a sribapical spot 

 on tibiae black ; antenna rnfescent ; no long i)ile on legs and underside. Rostrum 

 more than twice as broad as long, with a trace of a mesial carina at base. Antennal 

 segments 9 and 10 pear-shaped, truncate at apex, 9 longer than 3 and than 7-f 8. 

 Prothorax punctured like head, slightly uneven on disc, little wider at angle of 

 carina than in middle, angle of carina 90°, not rounded, lateral carina nearly 



