COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 531 



much more scanty than usual. Legs clothed with dense buff or white scales, even on 

 the under surface of the femora and the upper surface of the tibite, the under surface 

 of the latter being clothed with recumbent white setse ; the fringes comparatively 

 scanty and those on the anterior side of the femora almost entirely absent, except 

 lowards the apex. 



Length 6^, width o-g- mm. 



Utakwa Valley, 4000-6000 ft., Jan.-Feb. ] 913 ; 1 $ . {Type of the species.) 



Described from a single specimen. 



CaMIA SUPERCILIAEIS. 



Cainia superciliaris Pascoe, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) ii. 1885, p. 288. 

 Mimika River ; 1 ? . 



Mecopus teilineatus. 



Mecopus trilineatus Guerin, Voy. ' Coquille,' ii. pt. 2, 1838, Zool. p. 126. 

 Launch Camp, Setakwa River, Oct. 1912 {C. Bodeii Kloss) ; 2 d . 



Rhynchophokus kaupi. 



Rhynchophorus kaupi Schaufuss, Nunq. Otios. 1872, p. 448. 

 Mimika and Utakwa Rivers ; 4^,6 2 . 



Barystethus dispar Chev., var. basalis. 



Barystethns dispar, var. basalis Faust, Ana. Mus. Civ. Geuova, (2) xx. 1899, p. 119. 

 Mimika River ; 1 c? . 



Barystethus ater. 



Barystethus ater Pascoe, Joura. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. 1874, p. 71. 

 Utakwa River ; 1 d . 



Diathetes sannio. 



Diathetes sannio Pascoe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. 1874^ p. 72. 

 Utakwa River ; 1 d . 



Rhabdocnemis nudicollis. 



Sphenophorus nudicollis Kirsch, Mitt. Mus. Dresden, ii. 1877, p. 156. 

 Mimika River ; 1 d , 1 $ . 



Sparganobasis, gen. nov. 



Rostrum valde curvatum, basi incrassatum, in dorso supra antennas obtuse angulatum. Antennse 



in tertia parte a basi rostri insertse, funiculi articulis duobus basalibus longitudine sequalibus; 



primo incrassato, ceteris sequilongis, gradatim latioribus, clava magna subrotundata, dimidio 



apicali spongioso. Prothorax antice declivis, margine basali in medio rotundate produeto. 



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