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elongate-ovate, broadest at the shoulders and gradually narrowing posteriorly; the 

 apices, as usual, jointly produced into a short sharp process, shallowly punctato- 

 striate, the punctures almost entirely concealed by the scaling ; the intervals subcostate, 

 each with a row of separated shining granules, those on interval 2 ceasing long before 

 the apex and those on 4 not continued to the base, interval 2 a little more elevated 

 than the rest and with tlie granules closer and often irregularly duplicated. Sternum 

 rugosely and confluently punctate ; the terminal cavity of the pectoral canal with its 

 posterior margin not overhanging, but shallowly impressed and sinuate in the middle ; 

 the metasternum with a deep central furrow bounded in front by a curved elevation. 

 Venier closely and coarsely punctate throughout, except in the middle on both 

 margins of segments 3 and 4 and along the base of 5, which are smooth, segment 

 5 without any impression. Legs black with dark scales and setae, the anterior tibiae 

 with a long black fringe, all the tarsi with the two basal joints clothed beneath with 

 dense black pubescence, the third joint being spongy and ochraceous. 



Length 22|, width 10-J mm. 



UtakwaEiver; 1 j . {Type of the species.) 



Described from a single specimen. 



Evidently allied to L. major Heller, which is known to me from the description 

 only; but apart from its much smaller size (12-15 mm.), this species appears to differ 

 in the following characters : — the rostrum has a median stria between the antennse ; 

 the head is granulate, instead of punctate ; the prothorax has on each side in the 

 front half a patch of black scales in which the granules are thorn-like ; on the elytra 

 the granules on the hinder half of the 8th interval unite to form a narrow carina ; the 

 last ventral segment ( 6 ) has a deep round hairy impression. 



Blepiaeda simulator. 



Blepia7-da simulator Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) ii. 1885, p. 279. 

 Mimika Eiver ; 1 d . 



Blepiaeda sp. 



Utakwa liiver. 



Three broken specimens. 



EURHOPALA PIAZUEOIDES. 



Eurhopala piazuroides Faust. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 186. 

 Mimika River ; 1 S . 



Aeachnopus biplagiatus, sp. n. (PL XXXIX. fig. 8.) 



2 • Elongato-ovatus, iiiger, opacus, macula humerali ovata nivea (quam oculo paulo majore) in 

 elytris tantum ornatus ; fronte profunde sulcato ; prothorace crebre asperato-punctato, quam 



