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third , enlarged aud regularly rounded towards the middle , 

 furrowed above , rugoso-puuctate (except in the apical third), 

 the punctures are scaled at the sides. 



Elytra emarginate at the base , with the exterior angles 

 rounded , almost parallel at the sides , narrower at the 

 apical declivity, rounded at the apex; above along the 

 suture and at the sides they are foveolato-sulcate , in the 

 middle almost clathrate; the colour is shining black, ex- 

 cept the apical declivity and the apex , a rounded spot 

 behind the middle, a median line at the base, and the 

 shoulders, which are rusty red. 



Legs brown-red, the tibio-femoral articulation and the 

 median portion of the femora darker. Body beneath black, 

 shining ; the rostrum , coxae , metasternum and the S'"*! 

 and 4tli abdominal segments red-brown ; head notched at 

 the base, prosternum convex, the intercoxal process mar- 

 gined at the sides; metasternum punctured at the sides; 

 slightly depressed in the middle, abdomen at the base 

 almost convex , with some punctures at the sides ; the apical 

 segment is punctured. 



This new species is remarkable by the posterior angles 

 of the head being shaped as in some oriental species of 

 Trachelizus , notwithstanding this abnormal character, the 

 head is longer, the basal portion of the rostrum is parallel 

 at the sides , the prothorax and the elytra are broader and 

 shorter than in the species of Trachelizus (f. i. T. insularis 

 Senna, T. rufovittatus Perr.). The male is unknown, but 

 probably it has the head as long as broad and the rostrum 

 shorter than in Trachelizus. M. elegans Senna and the fol- 

 lowing species, M. trachelizoides m., may be considered as 

 transitional forms between the two genera. 



Miolispa trachelizoides , n. sp. 



cf. Elongata, robusta, nigra vel nigro-brunnea , singulo 

 elytro vitta mediana plus minusve lata a basi usque ad 

 medium vel ultra , fascia vel plaga ante declivitatem apicalem 

 et apice rufo-ferrugineis , interdura apice rufo-brunneo; ca- 



Notes from the Ley den ]Museura, Vol. XVI, 



