172 THE BRENTHID^ FROM JAVA. 



This species is remarkable by the elytra differently spot- 

 ted according to the sex, and it is allied (judging from des- 

 cription) to M. ceylonica Desbroch. ^). In both the sexes 

 the head, rostrum, antennee, prothorax and legs are 

 chestnut-rufous or brown-red and the elytra black ; in the 

 male each elytron has a longitudinal large ferruginous or 

 yellow-ferruginous band, taking its rise from the base, 

 finishing before the apical declivity and not touching the 

 lateral margin, nor the suture; moreover the apex and 

 the apical declivity (except the suture) are of the same 

 color : sometimes the band is not interrupted , but simply 

 narrower at the apical declivity. In the female each elytron 

 has a basal band interrupted towards the middle and at 

 the apical declivity ; but , like in the male , sometimes the 

 band is simply narrower in the two indicate parts. 



Head in male square , furrowed and punctate above , 

 notched at the base with two minute tubercles at the 

 hinder angles: in the female it is shorter, but similarly 

 shaped. Rostrum in cf as long as 2^/3 the head and mo- 

 derately curved; the basal portion shorter than the apical 

 one and hardly thicker, with three furrows above and an 

 excavation at the sides, the central furrow is a little nar- 

 rower than the lateral ones ; widened and rounded at the 

 insertion of the antennae : the apical part is furrowed at 

 the base, hardly enlarged at the extremity and punctured: 

 in the female the basal portion of the rostrum is equal in length 

 to the head and conical, beyond the antennae filiform and 

 moderately curved, furrowed at the base, as long as P/^ 

 the head and basal portion together : beneath the rostrum 

 in both sexes is as in M. metallica. Antennas almost of 

 the same length as the rostrum and head taken toge- 

 ther, similarly shaped as in the preceding species, but 

 the joints less robust, the apical ones narrower, the 9th 



1) Desbrochers des Loges, Description de Curculionides et de Brenthides in- 

 édits du Muse'e Indien de Calcutta, in: Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 59, 

 part 2, p. 223. 1890. 



Notes from the Leyden lyEuseuni, Vol. XIV. 



