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The female has only tlie slightest vestiges of spines on the 

 elytra. A nearly allied species from Aru is without the raised 

 lines on the alternate interstices. 



Ottistira bicornis. O. picea, dense griseo-squamosa, fusco nebu- 

 losa ; rostro longioie ; antennis subtestaceis ; clava fiisca, griseo- 

 tomentosa, modicc elongata; prothorace latitudine j)aulo longiore, 

 ntrinqne pone mcdiutn paulo incnrvato, sat confertim piinctato, doiso 

 siibbivittato ; elytris magis ampliatis, humeris obliquis, fortiter striato- 

 puiictatis, punctis approximatis, postice spinis duabus validis obliquis 

 armatis; interstitiis teitio postice, quinto septimoque basi elevatis; 

 jicdibus anticis majusculis ; tibiis anticis validis, arcuatis, intus basin 

 versus longe pilosis, tibiis interraediis breviusculis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



1 liave only a single example of this species, which is very di- 

 stinct from the preceding, having proportionally a larger prothorax, 

 more closely punctured elytra, and very strong fore legs. 



Ottistira planidorsis. O. ovata, subtcstacea, squatnis griseis 

 fuscisque dense tecta ; capite inter oculos ad basin rostri breviter cana- 

 liculate ; antennis testaceis, apicem versus infuscatis ; articulis ultimis 

 funiculi transversim subturbinatis ; clava ovali, vix elongata; pro- 

 thorace sat remote punctato, fusco bivittato; elytris dorso planatir, 

 fortiter sulcato-punctatis, ])unctis remotis, intcrstitio quinto postice 

 seusim elevato, apice rotundatis ; corpore infra minus squamoso ; 

 tibiis arcuatis, posticis rectis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hnb. Batchian; Amboyna. 



Well differentiated by the flatness of the elytra above, which is 

 limited on each side by the elevated fifth interstice. 



Ottistira ocularis. O. ovata, picea, squamis griseis fuscescenti- 

 busque tecta ; capite rostroque angustioribus, hoc baud sulcato ; 

 oculis antice approximatis ; antennis testaceis ; clava s.at breviter 

 ovali ; prothorace latitudine longitudini aiquali, sat leviter punctato ; 

 elytris anguste subcordatis, sulcato-punctatis, punctis linearibus, in- 

 terstitiis modicc convexis ; tibiis anticis et intermediis arcuatis, posticis 

 intus flexuosis. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. Singapore. 



The eyes are larger in this sjjecies, and only separated in front 

 by a comparatively narrow space. 



Ottistira pulchella. 0. ovata, picea, squamis flavo-vircntibus 



fuscesccnti figuratis tecta ; capite rostroque brevibus; oculis laterali- 



bus ; antennis fulvo testaceis ; funiculo breviusculo ; clava breviter 



ovata; prothorace parum transverso, npice qnam basi paulo nngus- 



lifNN. .TOur.N. — zoor.ooT, VOL. xr. 32 



