COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 509 



PART 11. Sy Guy A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived December 23, 1914 ; Eead March 9, 1915.] 

 CURCU LIONID^. 



Ehinoscapua DORI^. 



Rhinoscapha dorice Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) ii. 1885, p. 206, pL i. fig. 11. 

 Utakvva Eiver ; 4 d , 1 ? . 



Rhinoscapha azureipes. 



Geo7iemus azureipes Blanchard, Voy. Pole Sud, iv. 1853, p. 219, pi. xiii. figs. 15, 16. 

 Mimika and Utakwa Rivers ; 4 d , 4 $ . 

 The Mimika specimens have a marked pale green tinge. 



Rhinoscapha demissa, sp. n. 



5 . Niger, squamis brunneis undique densissime indutns, prothorace vitta media lata et utrinque 

 altera laterali pallide cinereo-ecEruleis ornato, pedibus squamis brunneis et cinereo-ccBruleis 

 immixtis ; rostro brevi, in medio costato, ante oculum sulco brevissimo foveiformi instructo ; 

 autennarum funiculo brevi, articulo clavse primo reliquis simul sumptis evidenter longioie ; 

 prothorace subquadrato grosse punctato, in vitta media paulo laeviore, ante medium rotunde 

 impresso ; elytris basi quam prothorace non latioribus, humeris omnino deficieutibus, parum 

 profunde punctato-striatis^ punctis magnis, interstitiis omnibus minime convexis sequalibus, 

 setis curvatis late planatis confertim obsitis. 



Colour black, so densely covered ■ with brown scaling as entirely to hide the 

 integument; prothorax with a broad central stripe of pale greyish-blue scales, which 

 is slightly narrowed in front, and a stripe of the same colour on the sides of the 

 prosternum; on the legs are mingled brown and grey-blue scales, the latter predominating 

 on the upper surface of the femora. 



Head with a short deep frontal stria. Rostrum unusually short, hardly longer than 

 its apical width, with a broad central costa and a shallow impression on each side of 

 it, the ante-ocular furrow very short and deep, the sculpturing hidden by the scaling. 

 Antennw with very dense scaling and broad flattened setee ; the funicle unusually 

 short, joints 1 and 3 equal and a little shorter than 2, 4 to 6 subequal and only 

 slightly longer than broad, 7 a little longer ; the club with the first joint evidently 

 longer than the rest together. Prothorax as long as broad, the sides straight and 

 parallel to near the apex, thence roundly narrowed to the apex, the upper surface 

 with very coarse confluent punctures partially fllled with scaling, a very broad shallow 

 median impression ending in a deeper rounded hollow in the anterior half. Scutellum 

 circular, with dense overlapping scales. Elijtra subelliptical, without any trace of a 

 humeral projection and acuminate behind, the apices jointly rounded, shallowly 



