from the Eastern Archipelago. 219 



squaraosis irregulariter nigro maculatis ; pygidio fore obtccto ; 

 corpore infra dense albido-squamoso, cpimcris mcsothoracis nigro 

 notatis ; pedibus ut in praeccdentc. Long. 2 liu. 



Ilab. Aru. ' 



From Say Ice there is another species of this genuSj probably 

 allied to this, but very much worn. 



Brimoda. 



Rostrum r&odice robustum, prothorace vix longius, basi cylindricum, 

 lineatum ; scrobes medians. Funiculus 7-articulatu3, articulis duo- 

 bus basalibus longioribus, cajteris brevibus, gradatim crassioribu8, 

 ultimo clava3 adnato. Frotlwrax transversus, utrinque rotundatus, 

 basi perparum bisiuuatus. Elytra trigona, apice rotundata. Pedes 

 breves ; femora subincrassata, infra leviter dentata ; tlhue validae, 

 compressae, arcuatte, vel flexuosa), apicem versus crassiores ; tarsi 

 breviusculi. Epimera mcsothoracis parum ascendentia. Propectus 

 canalicidatum. Coxoi antica) sejunetoe. Abdomen segmentis tri- 

 bus iutermediis ajqualibus. 



A small dull-looking insect at present is the sole represen- 

 tative of this genus, which, however, is one of the most distinct 

 of the group. 



Brimoda pagana. 



B. eubelliptica, fusca, parco rude griseo-squamosa ; rostro piceo, 

 basi paulo squamoso ; antennis subtestaceis ; prothorace modice 

 transverse, apice lato, utrinque manifesto rotundato, parce griseo- 

 squamoso, in medio carina abbreviata valida munito ; elytris for- 

 titer striato-punctatis, interstitiis convexis, tuberculato-asperatis, 

 squamis suberectis vestitis ; corpore infra femoribusque piceis, 

 dense albido-squamosis ; tibiis parce squamosis. Long. 1| lin. 



Hah. Singapore. 



OSPHILIA. 



MetialmcB fere congruens, sod rostro basi triangulariter compresso ; 

 tibiis iutermediis posticisque rectis, sublinearibus ; et corpore magia 

 elliptico. 



Whilst Metialma contains species nearly homogeneous, in 

 this genus they are more diversified, although there are several 

 which are so alike that, with my present materials, I have not 

 attempted to describe them. Three of these are allied to 0. 

 flavirostris (two from Sula and one from Sarawak) ; and two 

 to 0. undata (one from IMakian, the other from Batchian). 

 They are all thinly clothed with narrow scales, so narrow in 

 some as scarcely to be distinguished from hairs. A transverse 

 section of the rostrum at the base would be nearly represented 



