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costee a little behind the base are strongly raised and shining, the seventh remaining 

 much more evident than the rest until about the middle of the elytron. The anterior 

 tibiee in the male are curved inwards near the apex. 



Encyalesthus iridipennts. 



Encyalestkus iridipennis Fairm. Notes Leyd. Museum, xix. 1897, p. 220. 

 Mimika Eiver and Utakwa River ; 2. 



Lypkops atkonitbns. 



Lyprops atronitens Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii. 1883, ii. p. 27. 

 Launch Camp, Setakwa River, and Utakwa River; 3. 



Callismilax sp. ? 



Mimika River. A single broken specimen. 



Chaeiothes litigiosa. 



Chariotheca litigiosa Pascoej Journ. Ent. i. 1860, p. 126. 

 Mimika River ; 1. 



ESPITES OBSOUEUS, sp. n. 

 Niger, elytris obscure viridibus, purpureo tiuctis; capite sat dense puuctato ante oculos leviter 

 bi-impresso; prothorace transverso modice nitido, sat dense punctate; quam elytris angus- 

 tiore, antice et postice tenuiter marginato, margine autico in medio interrupto, lateribus 

 marginatis incrassatis, angulis anticis obtusis posticis subacutis ; elytris valde striatis, striis 

 subtiliter punctatis, intervallis convexis minute punctulatis ; corpore subtus pedibusque piceis. 

 Long. 10 mm., lat. 4i mm. 



Mimika River ; 6. {Including the type of the species.) 



Larger than E. hasalis Pasc, and much more soberly coloured. Head and pro- 

 thorax black, moderately nitid, and rather densely and finely punctate. Elytra dark 

 green with purple reflections, very strongly striate, the striae finely and closely punctate 

 and the intervals convex, finely punctulate. 



Amaeygmus vieidi^netjs. 



Amarygmus viridianeus Blair, Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 19 (March 24). 



Ovalis, viridi-seneus, nitidus, corpore subtus pedibusque rufescentibus ; sulcis ccularibus nuUis, 

 antennis rufo-piceis, protboracis lateribus arcuatim angustatis, dorso vix perspicue punctu- 

 lato ; elytris striato-punctatis, intervallis vix convexis, vix punctatis. 



Long. 11 mm., lat. 6 mm. 



Mimika River 1 and Utakwa River 2. {Including the type of the species.) 



