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two others before the middle, and finally, the portion 

 along the suture and the 2nd interstice is sometimes fulvous 

 or ferruginous. 



Hah. Western Java. — Several specimens , males and a 

 female, collected by Mr. J. D. Pasteur (Leyden Museum). 



Sectio 2». Prothorax non sulcatus vel obsoletissime 

 canaliculatus , crebre punctatus. 



* 11. M. metallica , no v. spec. 



Capite ceneo , hasi suhtruncato , in medio profunde inciso , 

 supra crebre pimctato , laterihus bituberculato ; rostro cylin- 

 drico basi vix incrassato , parce canaliculato , brunneo vel 

 bruTtneo-ceneo , apici ampliato , punctulato ; antennis validis , 

 clavatis , articulo apicali longiore ; prothorace oineo , pone 

 medium rotundato, creberrime pimctato; elytris brunneo- f er- 

 rugineis vel brunneo'ceneis , apice rufo , linea Jlava pone me- 

 dium interrupta ; in dorso sulcato-punctatis , humeris rotun- 

 datis et paullatim elevatis, lateribus modice ampliatis, apici 

 emarginatis anguUsque externis rotundatis. 



Long. 8 — 12^/2 mm. ; lat. prothor. l^j — 2 mm.; lat. elytr. 

 med. l^/g — 2V3mm. 



Head a little longer than broad , parallel at the sides , 

 distinctly notched at the base, with 2 minute tubercles on 

 each side at the hinder angles, above moderately convex, 

 densely punctate , sometimes with an obsolete furrow ; the 

 sides shining , rarely punctured ; beneath scattered with very 

 fine punctures and sometimes slightly furrowed in the middle. 

 Rostrum scarcely as long as twice the head ; the basal part 

 shorter than the apical one and hardly thicker, slightly 

 trisulcate , excavated at the sides , slightly raised at the 

 antennae; the anterior portion widened at the apex and 

 punctured , furrowed above and excavate at the sides in 

 the 1st half; beneath keeled in the middle: in the female 

 the head is as long as broad; the basal portion of the 

 rostrum shorter than the head, the apical part longer, 

 filiform and hardly curved upward ; beneath the rostrum 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMiiseiiixi , Vol. XI"V. 



