COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 517 



denuded ; the metasternum, the bare shining venter and the legs rust-red, but all the 

 coxae and the apical half of the front femora black. 



Head finely punctate, with a small frontal fovea. Mostnmi as long as the front 

 femora, rather stout, only slightly curved close to the apex, subcylindrical, very 

 shinj^, finely and fairly evenly punctate, with a broad shallow stria between the 

 antennae, and without any central line or carina at the base. Antennce with joint 1 of 

 the funicle as long as but stouter than 2, 3 to G subequal and scarcely as long as 

 broad. Prothorax subconical, a little broader than long, broadest near the base and 

 roundly narrowed in front, the apical constriction slight, the front margin roundly 

 produced dorsally, the ocular lobes moderate, the dorsal area closely punctate 

 throughout, the punctures being coarser towards the base, the sides set with low 

 granules. Scutellum circular, bare, impunctate, not enclosed by the elytra. Elytra 

 subcylindrical, a little broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, the sides sub- 

 sinuate in the middle, the dorsal outline shallowly sinuate near the base, the strite 

 shallow, but becoming deeper near the apex, the punctures narrow and elongate, the 

 intervals broad and plane, smooth and minutely punctate on the disk, rugosely 

 granulate towards the sides and apex, and especially at the base, striie 3, 4, and 5 

 subfoveolate at the base, the posterior callus distinct. Legs slender, with short 

 recumbent setae, the femoral teeth not denticulate, those on the elongate front legs 

 very large and triangular, the front tibias angulate internally in the middle. 



Length 10, width o| mm. 



Mimika River; 1 d . [Type of the species.) 



Described from a single specimen. 



Of the general form oi A. prceustus Guer., but most nearly allied to A. fcrrugineas 

 Hartm., and A. honguensis Hartm., which have similar short hind-femora, but in both 

 these species the scutellum is enclosed by the base of the elytra, the front tibiae are 

 angulated in the basal third, and the under surface of the body is somewhat densely 

 clothed with scales. 



COLOBODES CAVISQUAMIS, sp. n. (PL XXXIX. fig. 10.) 

 $ . Niger aut piceus, squamis saturate brunneis undique densissime iudutus, elytris macula 

 pallida parva subliumerali et fascia pallida trausvei'sa laterali pone medium inter strias 

 G et 9 oriiatis ; prothorace transverso, a basi ultra medium gradatim angustato, turn citius 

 coarctato, supra tuberculis duobus squamigeris ia apice ipso, quatuor in medio transversim 

 positis, duobus minoribus prope basin ; elytris tenuiter puuctato-striatis, punctis a squamis 

 fere occultisj interstitiis dorsalibus sequaliter paulo convexis in singulo granulis setigeris 

 multis unisei'iatim obsitis^ interstitiis lateralibus granulis uudis nitidis instructis. 



Colour black or piceous, densely clothed with dark brown scaling and set with 

 blackish-brown fasciculated granules, the elytra with a small pale subhumeral spot 

 and a transverse postmediun lateral pale patch lying between striae 6 and 9, the venter 

 with an indistinct lateral stripe of paler scales on each side 



