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Rj'st.pinatists appears to he to rcijjanl sncli names as identical, the / in I'hloinphHiix 

 lieini; a mere error of transeription. For that reason I wave m_y own inclination 

 and adopt for I'ldofiopliilus Schonh. {\>i'i'X) the name whicli comes next in priority, 

 this being Fhijsopterus. 



In all the sjiecies of Phi/,wptcnis a ridge runs from the centre of the oblique 

 anterior edge of the eye to the upper edge of the antennal groove, there being 

 a dejjression or groove above and below this lateral ridge. The upper one of 

 these grooves is usually bounded dorsally by a further ridge, which is a pro- 

 longation of the dorsal edge of the eye, and as a rule stops short about half- 

 way to the apex of the rostrum. The antenna of the c? is in most species 

 stouter and shorter, and the club is broader and flatter in the ?, than in Mecocerus. 

 The first segment of the foretarsus is at most a little longer than the fourth, never 

 being so ranch prolonged as in all the S <i of Mccocenis. The rostrum bears 

 at the base a deep median sulcus which usually extends well on to the frons. 



1. Physopterus opulentus spec nov. 



J?. Niger vel brunnens, pube olivaceo-ochracca tec'tus, gnttis nnmerosis 

 nigro-brunneis jiarce griseo pubesccntibus ornatns, antennis pedil>ns((ue brunneo- 

 rnfis, femoribus brunncis, antennarura clava nigra. J{ostrnra latitudine longins. 

 Frons in medio carinata, antice cum rostro sulcata. Elytra antice valde depressa, 

 postice gibbosa, tuberculo rotundato in spatio tertio sito instructa. 



Long. (cap. excl.) ~rh — 8-5 mm. 



Kina-Balu, North Borneo ; 1 cj and 2 ? ? . 



A third 6 (much worn) in the Tring Museum from the same place. 



The rostrum is half as long again as it is broad distal ly, and has strongly 

 marked carinae. The apex of segment 4 of the antennae and in ? ? (and 

 the brachycerous S) the entire 8th and the base of pubescent white. The 

 pronotum is as broad as it is long in the S and a little broader in the ?, 

 being conical from the carina forward; it is minutely punctured, but otherwise 

 smooth, bearing neitlicr tubercles nor grooves, and has aliout thirteen brown 

 spots, some of which are united with one another. The elytra are broader at the 

 base than the |)ronotura, being wider than in /'. gibhosm Guer. (1843), and 

 become gra<lually broader and higher, being widest and highest at five-sevenths, 

 where each bears a rounded tubercle, ac(^ompanied laterally by faint vestiges of 

 other tubercles ; the brown si)ot3, which bear a minute grey pubescence, are 

 more or less arranged in irregular transverse rows, and many are joined 

 together. 



The underside is spotted witli black-brown laterally. The S bears a 

 medianly divided pubescent central spot on the metasternum, and has the edges 

 of the abdominal segments slightly incrassate in the middle. The first fore- 

 tarsal segment is as long as the claw-joint or a little longer. 



Differs considerably from all the other species of Physopterua in the pattern of 

 the upperside, and is also otherwise easily recognised by the comparatively long 

 rostrum being strongly carinate. 



2. Physopterus maculifer Jord. (1894). 

 Snkabumi, West Java, 2000 ft. (H. Frnhstorfer) : 1 i. 



