rilYTOPHAGA FROM SUMATRA 48o 



at the middle .-iiid within the angles, posterior margin rounded, 

 the surface linely and closely })unctured, scutellum ])lack, elytra 

 moderately convex, nearly parallel, as finely punctured at the 

 tliorax, the base to less than a third of their length, black, the 

 rest reddish-fulvous, legs tìavous, breast obscure piceous as well 

 as the four posterior femora to a greater or smaller degree, the 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs half the length of tlie tibiae. 



Hab. Si-Rambé. 



Smaller than M. basalts, Jac. and with ditferently coloured 

 head, antennae, thorax and legs. 



144. Nlonolepta marginicollis, n. sp. — Flavous, a spot on the 

 head, the antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the margins 

 of the thorax narrowly black, elytra extremely finely punctured, 

 fiavous, margined with Idack, abdomen and legs flavous, breast 

 black. 



Length 1 ^4 line. 



Head impunctate, the fertex with a short central black stripe, 

 frontal elevations very small , clypeus rather broad and fiat , 

 antennae very closely approached at the imse, black, the lower 

 three joints fiavous, third joint very little longer than the se- 

 cond one, following joints equal, thorax twice as broad as long, 

 the sides slightly rounded, with a notch below the anterior 

 angles within which a single seta is placed , the disc without 

 depressions, scarcely perceptibly punctured, fiavous, the margins, 

 with the exception of the anterior one , narrowly piceous, scu- 

 tellum black, elytra convex, scarcely more distinctly punctured 

 than the thorax, all the margins and a spot on the shoulders, 

 black, the disc also with some very faint longitudinal darkish 

 stripes, abdomen and legs fiavous, the metatarsus uf the poste- 

 rior legs half the length of the ti])ia, the breast black. 



Hab. Si-Rambé. 



In the system of coloration, this species resemljles M. iiiargi- 

 nicoUis and M. nielanocephala but the head has a black spot, the 

 thorax has no depressions and its lateral margin has a more or 

 less distinct notch below the thickened anterior angles, in both 

 specimens before me the elytra show traces of faint longitudinal 



