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median longitudinal groove; surface smooth and rather densely 
clothed with long, golden, recumbent pubescence; eyes strongly 
margined on the inner side; epistoma narrow, not transverse, 
slightly elevated, anterior margin deeply, arcuately emarginate, 
the anterior angles not well defined ; antenne narrowly separated; 
clypeal suture distinct and strongly angulate. Pronotum short. 
three times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than be- 
hind; surface densely marked with distinct circles, from the 
center of which arises a rather erect pale yellow hair; anterior 
margin rather deeply, arcuately emarginate, the angles rather 
obtuse; sides slightly, obliquely arcuate, base bisinuate, with a 
broadly rounded median lobe in front of scutellum. Scutellum 
very small, triangular. Elytra a little wider than pronotum at 
base, slightly sinuate to posterior cox, then obliquely arcuate 
to the tips, which are conjointly rounded, humeri not promi- 
nent; surface without lateral carina, finely and rather densely 
punctate, with a wide, shallow depression along base and a 
similar one along lateral margin behind humerus, the entire 
anterior two-thirds rather densely clothed with short, very fine, 
semierect, piceous hairs, with the exception of a few scattered 
pale yellow hairs near scutellum, the entire apical third densely 
clothed with pale yellow recumbent hairs, this space with the 
anterior margin angulate, and with a round dark spot on the 
middle of each elytron at the apical fourth. Beneath convex; 
abdomen rather densely but not distinctly marked with semi- 
circular lines and finely granulate, sparsely clothed with minute 
white hairs; prosternum not distinctly divided into two parts, 
anterior margin truncate and distinctly margined; intercoxal 
process elongate, flat, sides feebly, arcuately concave, apex 
slightly expanded and broadly rounded; mesosternum with the 
anterior margin deeply, arcuately emarginate; tarsi and lamelle 
yellow; claws black. 
Length, 2.75 millimeters; width, 1.5. 
One specimen from Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Baker). 
Trachys cupripyga Deyrolle. 
One specimen which I take for this species was received from 
Puerto Princesa, Palawan (Baker 8344). 
Trachys cyanipennis sp. nov. 
Elongate, strongly convex, rounded posteriorly, head and 
pronotum bronzy black; elytra bright cyaneous, glabrous ; be- 
neath black, rather shining. 
