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J. The iutermediate joints of the auteimae broadly dihxtod, the two terminal 

 ones short and narrow. 



Ab. Underside and legs pale fulvous. 



Length 5 lines. 



Head strongly punctured at the vertex, the latter black, frontal elevations 

 strongly raised, broad, smooth, clypeus triangular, raised, the antennae two-thirds 

 the length of the body, black, the basal joints more or less testaceous, the third 

 joint elongate, the following joints to the ninth, gradually and broadly dilated, 

 the apex of the ninth obliquely truncate, the tenth joint short, the eleventh 

 more elongate ; thorax transverse, three times broader than long, the sides 

 nearly straight, the posterior angles rounded, the surface rugosely punctured, 

 testaceous, the sides with a round fovea, the anterior margin with a transverse 

 obsolete depression ; scutellum broad, closely j)unctured ; elytra convex, very 

 closely rugose and punctured, their epipleurae nearly absent except at the base. 



Bali. Knilu (Mus. Rothschild), and Gaboon (coll. Jacoby). 



This si)ecies may easily be mistaken for M. transversofasciata Jac. {epiphiata 

 Dalm.), which it resembles closely in coloration, Init in that species the elytral fulvous 

 band is broader and the entire surface is closely covered with fulvous hairs ; the 

 principal character of distinction is however to lie found in the structure of the 

 antennae, in their broadly dilated intermediate joints, which are deeply concave 

 at the underside ; the last two joints on the contrary are suddenly narrowed like 

 an appendage to the broad joints. In a specimen from Gaboon in my collection 

 the breast, abdomen, and legs are nearly black ; there are only 7nale specimens 

 before me. 



Stenoplatys divisa sp. nov. 



Pale fulvous, the antennae and legs black, thorax broader thau long, with two 

 depressions, elytra with a deep basal depression, finely punctured, the anterior half 

 black, the posterior one fulvous. 



3. Head with a deep excavation, the upper margin with a long projecting 

 spine. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head fulvous, the vertex with a sharply pointed spine projecting over the deep 

 excavation between the eyes which occupies the entire space between the latter, 

 jjennltimate joint of palpi incrassate, antennae nearly as long as the body, piceous, 

 the second joint short, the third and following joints elongate, of nearly equal 

 length ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, slightly 

 narrowed towards the base, the anterior angles tnberculate, the surface impunctate, 

 with two rather deep fovea not extending to the sides, pale fulvous ; scutellum 

 fulvous, elytra with the basal portion raised, followed by a deep depression 

 extremely finely punctured, the punctures nearly absent towards the apex, the 

 anterior portion to a little below the middle black, the rest fulvous, their epipleurae 

 broad, concave, continued to the apex ; the underside and the coxae fulvons, the legs 

 black, tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the jiosterior tarsi nearly as long as the 

 following joints together, claws appendiculate ; anterior eoxal cavities closed. 



Hab. Knilu. A single specimen. 



It is rather arbitrary that I have placed this species in Stenoplatys as the 



