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from Java where it appears to be uncommon. I several 

 times have had specimens from Amboina, Batcbian , Hal- 

 maheira and Penang. The rufous or fulvous yellow color 

 varies in intensity, being in some specimens paler, in 

 others cinnamon rufous or dark rufous : the sutural region 

 is sometimes glossy black. 



*10. M. javanica, nov, spec. 



Elongata , robusta , capite , rostro (apice e.vcepto), antennis 

 ehjtrorum apice, pedibusgue rufo-brunneis ; prothorace casta- 

 neo-piceo vel brunneo-castaneo plus minusve saturato, elytris 

 piceis vel piceo-castaneis , vitta suturali pone medium inter- 

 rupta linéolisque fiavo-ferrugineis. Caput oblongum , basi 

 emarginatum et in medio incisum ; rostrum breve , modice 

 sulcatum, apici divisum; prothorax levis , nitidissimus ; ely- 

 tra medio ampliata, apici truncata, sulcato-punctata , inter- 

 stitiis angustis , elevatis. 



Long. 8 — 12 mm.; lat. prothor. I'f, — 2 mm.; lat. elytr. 

 med. 11/2— 2^2 mm. cT, 9- 



The head is longer than broad, convex above, shining, 

 without punctures and furrow ; the front with a very mi- 

 nute ditch , the base is emarginate , scarcely narrower , 

 notched in the middle ; the sides slightly curved , the hin- 

 der angles subacute: beneath shining with scattered punc- 

 tures hardly perceptible: in the female the head is simi- 

 larly shaped but nearly square. Rostrum robust, as long as 

 1^/3 the head, moderately curved, the basal portion shorter 

 than the apical one, subcylindrical and excavated at 

 the sides, furrowed above, but the furrow not touching 

 the base; between the antennae scarcely elevated, beyond 

 them the rostrum is a little narrower and furrowed in the 

 1st half, towards the apex widened and at the extremity 

 divided in the middle: the mandibles are exserted, inclu- 

 ding an empty space : in the female the basal portion is 

 shorter than the head and elevated near the antennae , the 

 apical part is filiform and slightly furrowed in the basal 

 half. Antennae clavate , about as long as twice the head : 

 the 1st joint robust, clavate, longer than the 2nd and 



Notes from tlae Leyden Museurn , "Vol. XJV. 



