518 ME. GUT A. K. MAESHALL ON COLEOPTEEA 



Head with dense erect puckered scaling, the forehead with a broad central 

 impression. Bostrum comparatively short and rather strongly curved, shorter than 

 the prothorax, parallel-sided from the base to near the apex and there distinctly 

 dilated, densely clothed with scaling except near the apex and bearing erect spatulate 

 setae, the apical area strongly and closely punctate. Antennce with the second joint 

 of the funicle scarcely as long as the first. Prothorax slightly transverse, broadest 

 at the base and much narrowed in front, the sides slightly rounded in the middle, 

 with a shallow subapical constriction ; the upper surface densely clothed with cup-like 

 scales, on the apical margin two fascicles of scale-like setse, about the middle a 

 transverse row of four fascicles of which the inner ones are the larger, and behind 

 these two much smaller elevations formed of scales only. Scutellum with dense erect 

 puckered scales. Elytra with the basal margin almost straight, the sides subparallel 

 from the shoulders to the middle only, thence roundly narrowed, the apices jointly 

 rounded, finely punctato-striate, the punctures largely concealed by the scaling, the 

 intervals broad, all slightly and equally convex, each with a single irregularly-spaced 

 row of granules, those on the dorsum being covered with scales and scale-like setae 

 and those at the sides being bare and shining ; the scales are more or less overlapping 

 and have their margins slightly raised. Legs rather short, densely covered with uniform 

 brown scaling, and with numerous erect brown scale-like setse, the tibiae less strongly 

 sinuate than in the genotype, C. hillbergi Boh. 



Length 8^, width 4 mm. 



Mimika River ; 3 $ . {Including the type of the species ) 



Described from three specimens. 



Pantoxtstiis eubricollis. 



Clegonus rubricoUis Boisduval, Voy. Astrol. ii. 1832-85, p. 442 

 Mimika River ; 1 d . 



PSEUDOPOROPTEEUS ARCHAICUS. 



Poropterus archaicus Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) ii. 1885, p. 263. 

 Launch Camp, Setakwa River (C Boden lUoss) ; 1. 



PSEDDOPOROPTERUS VICARIUS. 



Poro'pterus vicarius Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) ii. 1885, p. 263. 

 Utakwa River ; 1 . 



Meroleptus laterosignatus, sp. n, 

 ,$ . Oblongo-ovatus, niger, squamis ferrugineo-brunneis erectis supra et subtus sat dense indutus, 

 episterao et epimero mesosternali et basi episterni metasternalis squamis luteis creberrimis 

 ornatis ; frontis margiue postico regulariter sinuate, rostro ad basin tricarinulato, sulcis 



