COLLECTED IN DIJTCH NEW GUINEA. 527 



longitudiue paululo latiore ; elytris confertim vix ordinate granulatls^ interstitiis sqnamulis 

 minutis brunneis obsitis, ad latera subpunctato-striatis ; sterno squamis rufo-brunneis induto ; 

 pedibus ciliis albidis ornatis ; funiculi articulo secundo quam primo longiore. 



Colour black, the elytra with minute brown scales between the granules and each 

 with a subovate white humeral patch slightly larger than the eye ; the sternal scaling 

 dark red-brown, the leg-fringes yellowish white. 



Head almost impunctate, the forehead with a broad furrow containing a deep fovea 

 at its base. Mostrum long and slender, with a comparatively broad impunctate central 

 carina at the base and only one distinct lateral carina, the inner one being almost 

 obliterated. Antennce with joint 2 of the funicle slender and longer than 1 ; 3 and 4 

 diminishing in length, but longer than broad and sabclavate ; 5 subquadrate ; 

 6 similar, but longer; 7 still longer, widening to the apex, about as long as its apical 

 width. Protlwrax a little shorter than its greatest width, broadest well behind the 

 middle, sides moderately rounded, very slightly flattened in front of the middle and 

 rather abruptly constricted at the apex ; the upper surface with fairly close small 

 rasp-like punctures and without any central impressed line ; the granules adjoining 

 the punctures flattened shiny and mostly sublunulate, each puncture bearing a 

 minute recumbent dark seta, the lateral granules more elevated ; the presternum with 

 a broad and deep central furrow. Elytra with the sides slightly rounded at the base, 

 strongly acuminate behind, the apex slightly produced backwards but not downwards, 

 the dorsal outline strongly convex and forming a regular curve \\\> to the small apical 

 projection ; the upper surface closely and somewhat confusedly granulate, with 

 scarcely an indication on the disc of granulated sulci, which, however, become more 

 evident laterally; the granules transverse, and behind each a very short pale recumbent 

 scale-like seta. Legs with the usual long fringes of a yellowish-white colour, the 

 femora with broad transverse shiny granules, the tibia3 with sparse short recumbent sette. 



Length 13, width 6 J mm. 



Utakwa Eiver ; 1 $ . {Type of the species.) 



Described from a single specimen. 



Nearly allied to A. fristis Heller (Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, xii, no. 1, 1908, p. 28), 

 which it closely resembles in general form and sculpture ; but that species difl'ers in 

 having four pale stripes on the prothorax and two on each elytron, while the humeral 

 patch is smaller and more elongate ; the dorsal curvature of the elytra is much flatter 

 and the apex is produced downwards, not backwards, in the female ; the setse on the 

 elytra are nearly twice as long ; the central carina on the rostrum is much narrower 

 and there are two distinct carinse on each side. 



AkACHNOPUS BINOTATL'S. 



Arachiiopus binotatus Pascoc, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. 1871, p. "58. 

 Mimika Eiver ; 1 c? , 2 ? . 



