Pli}'topliagoiis Colcoptcra. 4o7 



short, the third nearly twice the length of the second, the fourth 

 longer than the two preceding united; the eight lower joints 

 flavous (the rest broken off). Thorax three times as broad as 

 long; sides rounded, nearly parallel at the base, anterior angles 

 produced, excurved, obtiise, the hinder ones acute; disc shining 

 impunctate. Elytra finely punctured, rufo-testaceous, a broad 

 common fascia scarcely below the middle, flavous; this band is 

 bordered both above and below by a broad somewhat irregular 

 black fascia, abbreviated at the extreme sutural and lateral 

 margins, the base of each elytron also black. 



Genus KuniVMA, Baly, n. gen. 



Coi'jDis rotundato-ovatum, convcxum. Caput modice cxser- 

 tum, facie declivi; cncarpi!^ maguis, transversis, apice contiguis; 

 carina, distincta; antennis filiformibus, corporis dimidio longiori- 

 bus, articulo primo claA^ato, secundo ovali, tertio illo dimidio 

 longiori ca?teris cylindricis, magis robustis; oculis rotundato- 

 ovatis, prominulis ; palpis maxillaribus ovatis, articulo ultimo 

 acuto. Thorax transversus, utrinque basi sulco brevi longitu- 

 dinali impressus. Elytra eonvexa, substriatim punctata, limbo 

 iuflexo fere ad apicem extenso. Pedes: coxis anticis transversis; 

 feniorihts posticis non incrassatis ; tibiis apice muticis, dorso 

 carinatis; tarsis posticis articulo basali secjuentibus tribus con- 

 junctis breviori; iingn-'cnlis acute appendiculatis. Prosternum 

 inter coxas bene distinctum, illis fere a^quialtum, apice abrupte 

 dilatatum : acefabiilis anticis integris. 



Somewhat similar in form to Emathea, but separated from 

 that genus by the cylindrical joints of the antenna?, the OA'ate 

 palpi and the longitudinal grooves at the base of the thorax. 



1. E)iphi/ma coUarifl, n. sp. 



Ivotundato-OA'ata, couvcxa, nitida, sulitus })icco-rufa, tibiis, 

 tarsis femori])usque posticis piceis, abdomine nigro ; supra 

 obscure rufa, antennis, basi exceptis, nigris; thorace hnpunctato, 

 utrinque basi sulco brevi impresso ; elytris ca?ruleatis, sat 

 fortiter substriatim punctatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Kali. The Hills. 



Vei-tcx smooth, impiuictatc; encarpn:! separated from the front 

 liy a transverse groove, transverse, thickened, their apices con- 

 tiguous ; carina raided, narroAvly oblong, its apex acute and 

 extending upwards between the cncarpoj for half their length; 



