COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 533 



behind the middle, distinctly constricted and subtubulate at the apex ; the upper 

 surface unevenly set with large shallow punctures, which are more closely placed on 

 the red markings. Scutellum impunctate. Elytra oblong-ovate, broadest at the 

 shoulders, which are very obliquely rounded, and very gradually narrowed behind, 

 jointly sinuate at the base, the apices separately rounded ; deeply striate, the striae 

 with separated shallow punctures, the intervals broad, strongly convex and impunctate, 

 each with a single row of minute remote silky fascicles, which often run together 

 to form a short pale line, especially on the red portions which make up the cruciform 

 marking. Legs black, the femora with large close punctures, each of which contains 

 a very short depressed seta and is filled with pale silky indumentum, the under surface 

 with a fringe of sparse, uneven, projecting setae ; the tibise with two impressed pale 

 silky stripes on each face, the raised intervals black and bare, each stripe bearing a row 

 of depressed setae ; the tarsi with remote silky punctures. 



Length 10-16-g-, width 4-6^ mm. 



Utakwa River ; 2 d , 1 $ . [Types of the species.) 



In addition to these specimens there are four others (3 d , 1 ? ) in the Pascoe 

 collection from Andai and Sele, Dutch New Guinea; Batchian {Wallace); and 

 MisoL 



SiPALUS GEANDLATUS. 



Calandra granulata Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. ii. 1801^ p. 432. 

 Mimika Eiver ; 14 c? , 14 $ . 



Ckyftodeema collaee. 



Oxyrhynchus collaris Ritsema, Notes Leyden Mus. iv. 1882, p. 185. 

 Mimika River ; 3 cj , 8 ? , 



PART III. By C. J. Gahan. 



[Eead March 9, 1915.] 



[The Manuscript of this Part not having been received from the author, the memoir 

 has had to be made up without it. It will be published by the New Guinea Committee 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union as a separate pamphlet, in which descriptions -of 

 figures 16-24 on Plate XXXIX. will be given.— Editoe, Aug. 16, 1915.] 



