68 MESODERES MACULATÜS. 



Capite brevissimo , transverso , utrinque subdilatato , basi 

 emarginato et subtuberculato , supra punctata , oculis promi- 

 nentibus, semiglobosis , basin capitis fere attingentibus. Rostro 

 quam capite longiore illoque angustiore , recuroo , basi sub- 

 sulcato ; prorostro rapide fortiterque dilatato. Antennis ad 

 latera rostri insertis, crassiuscuUs , articuUs 3° — 8° breviter 

 subobconicis , 9° et 10° majoribus^ compressis , longioribus 

 quam latioribus , apicali acuminato , vix longiore quam 10°. 



Frothorace brevi, subelliptico antice haud compresso 

 neqiie excavato , lateribus regulariter modiceque curvato- 

 ampliato , supra convexo , sparsim punctulato-piloso , obso- 

 letissime medium versus canaliculato. 



Ehjtris duplo prothoracis distincte brevioribus ^ basi 

 emarginatis, humeris callosis ^ lateribus curvatis , gradatim 

 ampliatis usque ad medium ibique evidenter latioribus quam 

 prothorace , deinde angustatis , apice obtuso ; supra convexis, 

 subfornicatis , sulcato-costatis , sulcis vix punctulatis , inter- 

 stitiis regularibus , dor so co?ivexis, punctulatis et pilosis; 

 interstitio 2° ferrugineo , latiore quam sequente et a basi 

 usque ad apicem prolongato , sequentibus basin et medium 

 versus plus minusve ferrugineo notatis. 



Corpore infra brunneo-rubro, nitido ; capite infra bisbul- 

 boso ^ rostro basi utrinque spinoso, prosferno antecoxali 

 depresso , processu lato ; metaster no convexo , medio canalicu- 

 lato , abdomine basi sublaevi^ segmento apicali punctulato. — 

 Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Malacca. 



One specimen, probably a female, belonging to the 

 collections of the R. Museum at Brussels (ex coll. Castelnau). 



Allied to M. sexnotatus Senna but differs by the following 

 characters : head more distinctly separated from the neck , 

 with the occiput more raised ; prorostrum narrower at its 

 origin , prothorax shallowly channelled near the base, nar- 

 rower anteriorly ; elytra more attenuate behind , colour, 

 disposition and number of the elytral markings different. 



Notes from the Leyden JMiiseiim , Vol. X.X. 



