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punctate above, subclathrate ; the l^t farrow narrower than 

 the following ones and impunctate , these latter are broader 

 than the interstices and deeply punctured ; the interstices 

 are raised and narrow. 



Legs regular. Body beneath black-browu, shining, head 

 punctured , metasternura and base of the abdomen slightly 

 impressed along the median line. 



In the female the head and rostrum are slightly shorter, 

 the prorostrum longer, cylindrical ; the median joints of 

 the antennae more transverse , the apical ones shorter ; 

 prothorax ovato-conical , less constricted at the apical 

 margin; head beneath indistinctly punctured, metasternum 

 and base of the abdomen not impressed. 



Allied to M. exarata Desbroch. but distinguished by the 

 following characters: head more truncate at the base, with 

 the hind angles almost straight , the prothorax narrower 

 anteriorly, the elytra more punctured and finally the colour 

 is different. 



Miolispa lineata, n. sp. 



cf. Elongata , subgracilis , fulvo-ferruginea parum nitida , 

 capite , rostro , anténnis, elytrorum regione suturali et decli- 

 vitate apicali , pedibus , corpore infra et laterihus nigris vel 

 hrunneo-nigris ; capite angusto , leviter longiore quam latiore, 

 supra obsolete canaliculato , caiialiculo interdum super verticem 

 indistindo ; antennarum articulis fitnicidi gracilibus , breviter 

 obconicis, 9" et 10^ fere aeque latis quam longis , lateribus 

 curvatis; prothorace sparsim modiceque punctato ; elytris re- 

 gulariter punctato- sulcatis. — Long. 6 — 7^/2 mm. 



Hab. Western Java. 



Head narrow, slightly longer than broad, strongly not- 

 ched in the middle and laterally, convex and indistinctly 

 channelled above with the sides straight; rostrum slender, 

 metarostrum shorter than the head , furrowed in the middle 

 and at the sides, prorostrum longer than the metarostrum, 

 furrowed in the basal half, slightly enlarged at the tip. 



Notes from thie Hjeyden Museum, Vol. X.X, 



