19, 5 Heller: New Philippine Coleoptera 603 
subter parce, femoribus sat dense albido-, tarsis dense cano-, 
tibiis nigricanti-squamosis. 
Long. 9 mm., lat. 4.5. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga Province, Zamboanga. 
Somewhat similar to N. cristatus Faust, but the white-scaled 
thorax without black-scaled, longitudinal stripes, moderately 
densely punctate, not all punctures filled by a white scale, disk 
with a smooth median carina; antenne black, second joint of 
funicle more than one and one-half times longer than first, the 
following spheric, seventh slightly thicker than long, club one and 
one-half times longer than thick; thorax hardly broader than 
long (3.7 :3), the sides feebly rounded; scutellum minute, 
hemispheric, yellowish-scaled; elytra not quite one and one-half 
times longer than broad (7 : 5), sides parallel in basal half, dull 
black, more sparsely covered with much smaller scales than 
prothorax, ‘apparently unscaled if seen with the naked eye, 
foveolate-punctate-striate, the inner strie hardly impressed, the 
punctures elliptic, each distant from the other by its length, on 
anterior border of cavity a black seta, inserted from behind; 
intervals a little broader than striz, second and fourth more 
distinctly convex than the others, second in the middle fifth 
slightly convex and near the base with an oblong callosity, 
both black, like the second third of suture and some lateral 
- spots; intervals throughout, suture in anterior half, witha row 
of remote smooth granules; below coarsely punctate, covered 
with pale, scattered, roundish scales; femora coarsely rugose- 
punctate, with similar but longer and denser scales, and inter- 
spersed with black sete; tibie black setose, tarsi densely 
white-scaled, posterior femora extending distinctly beyond apex 
of elytra. 
Nechyrus humerosus sp. nov. 
Praecedenti similis ac affinis, sed supra parce unicolor ochra- 
_ €e0-squamosus; prothorace apice et utrinque in disco squamulis 
- nigris maculatim fasciculatis, lateribus in dimidia parte basali 
postrorsum subdivergentibus, angulis posticis subacutis; elytris 
ad humeros productis ac oblique truncatis, ad truncaturae angu- 
lum externum (ut in humeralis Faust) maxima latitudine, 
foveolato-striatis, foveolis plus minusve rotundatis, spatiis punc- 
tis paulo latioribus, ut in bifasciculato alternatis convexioribus ac 
partim nigro-costato-fasciculatis, praesertim spatio secundo, pone 
basin, tuberculo oblongo, nigro-fasciculato, distincto. 
1825176 ? 
