neio Species of IW^tcv'idx. 1^39 



Plccsius ruptistriuit, sp. n. 



Oblonpo-ovalus, convexiusculiis, iii,u:er, iiitiJua ; fronte bistriata, 

 striis hand arcuatis ; proiioto autico l)i.siiiuato. stria marfjinali 

 post caput leviter iiitorrupta ; dytris striis subhuiuerali iiitcnia 

 antice, externa postice, abbreviatis, dorsalibud nuUis ; propygidio 

 disco ])arte iinpuiictato ; prostorno baud striato ; mesosterno stria 

 late iiitorrupta ; tibiis auticis bideutatis. 



L. 12 mill. 



The species sonicwliat resembles P. hi4nuatus, Scii., but it 

 is more oblong and more parallel laterally. It differs also by 

 the frontal strife being feebly bent, not arcuate, by the 

 thoracic lateral stria being less deep and more distinctly 

 hamate at the anterior angle, by the marginal thoracic stria 

 being fine anteriorly and slightly interrupted behind the head. 

 The dorsal stria; are wholly wanting in one example, but are 

 represented by a few punctures in another, and the smooth 

 basal space of the pro])ygidium encroaches on the discal area, 

 while in hiainuatus there is a marginal smooth band only. 

 Superficially P. rupistrius resembles P. Itevigatus, Murs., but 

 the latter has a mesosternal furrow. 



kSchmidt's specimens of P. sinuatus came from the Aru 

 Islands, and I possess a series of examples from Run Island, 

 on the northern coast of New Guinea ; between these two 

 islands the intervening land is at its narrowest. 



Hub. Owgarra, British New Guinea (^A. S. Meek). 



Apolletes marginicollis, Lew. Ann. Mus. Genova, vi. p. 633 

 (18«y). 



In 1891 {1. c. xii. p. 20) I wrote that this species was a 

 variety of A. Schauini, Mars.; but this was an error, owing 

 to my having an example of ISchaumi wrongly labelled by the 

 author of the species. 



Apolletes runensis^ sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, planiusoulus, nigor, nitidus ; fronte anterius de- 

 prcsea, stria utriiujue interrupta ; prouoto lateribus obscure punc- 

 tate, stria antiec valida intcrrupta ; dytris striis dorsalibus 1-3 

 intepris, Ji distincte sinuata, 4 aj)icali brevissiraa, cieteris nullis ; 

 propygidio pygidioquo basi sparsiiu grosso-j)unctatis, hoc iminar- 

 ginato ; pro.-^terno lato, tenuissirae punctulato ; niesusterno late 

 sinuato, margiue lato, stria postice paulo abbreviata ; tibiis 

 anticis minute 4 dentatis. 



L. 3-3^ mill. 



The above is verv similar to A. nmphihius, Mars., but it is 



24" 



