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anterior margin nearly straight; posterior margin strongly bisinu- 

 ate ; surface coarsely punctate, the punctures distinct and well sepa- 

 rated from each other on the disk, becoming closer and coarser 

 toward the sides and with a well-defined prescutellar fovea, in- 

 tervals toward lateral margin minutely rugose, smooth on disk. 

 Scutellum small, round; surface smooth. Elytra a little wider than 

 pronotum ; sides strongly sinuate at basal third, nearly parallel to 

 apical fourth, then strongly attenuate to apices, which are strongly 

 rmarginate and bispinose, the outer spine being the longer; surface 

 rather strongly punctate-striate on disk, the striae and punctures 

 becoming confused toAvard sides ; intervals flat and irregularly punc- 

 tate. Beneath rather strongly punctate, the puncture distinctly 

 separated from each other, sparsely clothed with rather long, incon- 

 spicuous hairs, the intervals vaguely rugose; posterior coxae and 

 base of second, third, and fourth abdominal segments with a white 

 deciduous pubescent spot along lateral margin; last abdominal seg- 

 ment broadly rounded at apex. Femora and tibiae sparsely, coarsely 

 punctuate and vaguely rugose. 



Length, 10 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Type locality. — Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Type.—Q^i. No. 24668, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a unique male from Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philip- 

 pine Islands, collected by Prof. C. F. Baker. 



This sj^ecies is closely allied to P. vittaticolUs Waterhouse, but can 

 be easily distinguished from that species by the uniformly green color 

 above, and also by each elytron having only seven white pubescent 

 spots. 



NEOPTOSIMA PICEA. new species. 



Subcylindrical, moderately convex, strongly attenuate posteriorly, 

 of a uniform bright piceous color with a slight purplish tinge; uni- 

 formly but not densely clothed with fine, erect cinereous pubescence. 



Head strongly and uniformly convex, much narrower than pron- 

 otum; surface coarsely and rather densely punctate, the punctures 

 becoming finer on the occiput ; epistoma very short, separated from 

 the front by a transverse groove, antennal cavities transverse and 

 limited in front by the epistoma; antennae reaching to middle of 

 pronotum, inserted at the base in a groove between the eyes and 

 prosternum, the groove not prolonged on the latter. Pronotum mod- 

 erately convex, nearly two times as wide as long, much narrower in 

 front than behind ; sides obliquely arcuate ; anterior margin bisinuate 

 with a feebly rounded median lobe; base feebly arcuate; disk reg- 

 ularly convex without any depressions, surface densely, regularly, 

 and rather coarsely punctate. Scutellum small, smooth, truncate 

 in front and rounded behind. Elytra at base equal in width to the 



