576 The Philippine Journal of Science 1921 
Micrapries echinus sp. nov. 
Oblongus, albido, scutello suturaque ad basin fusco-squamosis, 
remote erecteque setosus; rostro prothorace breviore, fere usque 
ad apicem squamoso, antennis prope ante rostri medium insertis, 
clava, nigra excepta, fulvis, funiculi articuli secundo primo, in- 
crassato, longiore ac tenuiore, tertio crassitudine duplo longiore, 
tres sequentibus crassitudine haud longioribus, clavam versus 
crescentibus; prothorace longitudine latitudine aequali, in di- 
midia parte apicali semicirculari, in dimidia parte basali rectis, 
basin versus subconvergentibus ac trituberculatis, disco seria 
transversa, e tuberculis quatuor, fuscescenti bi- aut trisetosis 
formata; elytris spatiis alternatis convexioribus ac remote seria- 
to-tuberculatis, spatio secundo ad basin callositate, oblonga, 
pluri-, tuberculis reliquis uni-setoso-squamosis. 
Long. 4 mm., lat. 2. 
LUZON, Mount Banahao (2645). 
Dirty white, elytra brownish white, the oblong scutellum and 
the basal part of suture nut brown; rostrum, except the smooth 
apex, densely squamose, sét with very scattered bristles; an- 
tenne yellowish brown, the club black, second joint of funicle 
nearly three times longer than the thickened first joint; thorax in 
anterior part semicircular, the sides in posterior part nearly 
parallel, with small tubercles; disk with a tranverse row of 
four tubercles, each bearing 3 or 4 brownish scale bristles; elytra 
punctate-striate, the alternate intervals convex, set with very 
remotely seriate granules, each bearing a spatuliform scale 
bristle, second interval with an oblong callosity bearing several 
bristles, shoulders slightly prominent; underside whitish scaled. 
Genus PARAPRIES novum 
Corpus oblongum, squamosum ac setosum. Rostrum cylin- 
dricum, prothorace brevius usque ad apicem, subdilatatum, squa- 
mosum, basi utrinque sulco glabro, transverso, ab aculo separa- 
tum. Antennae antemedianae, funiculo 7-articulato. Protho- 
rax lobis ocularibus distinctis. Scutellum tomentosum. Elytra 
prothorace latiora, lateribus parallelis, basi parum producta. 
Metasternum inter coxas intermedias perpendiculariter declive, 
subconcavo ac marginem elevatum concavum formante. Fe 
mora sublinearia, dentata, sternitum quartum vix superantia. 
Tarsi breviusculi. : . 
Typus, Apries histrio Faust, ex Birma. 
