NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA pai 
Length 4 lines. 
Head with a deep longitudinal groove ‘at the vertex, dividing 
the frontal tubercles; the latter triangular and distinct; the 
face concave, shining and impunctate; the apices of the jaws 
and the palpi piceous; antennae two thirds the length of the 
body, the first two joints shining, the others opaque, terminal 
joints thinner and tapering towards the apex; thorax twice as 
broad as long, the angles oblique, the sides slightly rounded at 
the middle, the surface with a few punctures near the anterior 
angles only, the disc with a deep transverse groove at the 
middle not extending to the lateral margin, a similar deep 
depression is placed close to the posterior margin; scutellum 
pubescent; fulvous; elytra finely coriaceous, closely covered 
with fulvous pubescence, the apices purplish black, the rest 
fulvous; underside black, closely pubescent, femora rather 
robust. 
Hab. New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D'Albertis). 
The second transverse groove of the thorax is interrupted at 
the sides and forms a small fovea, the first depression is slightly 
sinuate. 

