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Hoplasoma philippinensis n. sp. 
Elongate, parallel, flavous, Shining, head and thorax impunctate, 
elytra finely and closely punctured, below flavous, the abdomen 
more or less piceous. 
G. The second abdominal segment with two short pointed 
fuscous appendages. 
Length 3 1/2-4 lines. 
Head impunctate, frontal elevations strongly raïsed, trigonate, 
palpi incrassate, antennæ extending beyond the middle of theelytra, 
flavous, all the joints with the exception of the second, of nearly 
equal length; thorax one half broader than long, the sides straight 
at the base, rounded in front, the disc transversely sulcate, impunc- 
tate; elytra closely and finely punctured the sides deflexed but not 
sulcate; underside and legs flavous, posterior femora extending to 
the apex of the abdomen in the male, shorter in the female, apex 
of the elytra rather truncate and slightly dentate at the suture. The 
last abdominal segment with two elongate rather deep sulcations. 
Hab. : Luzon, Philippine Islands (Semper) (Brussels Mus.). 
This species is of the same elongate shape as its allies but differs 
from any in having only the last abdominal segments more or less 
piceous, and in the short and dark-coloured tentacles of the abdo- 
men, the colour of the breast and absence of the elytral sulcation 
separates the species from several others of nearly similar colour, 
in connection with the structure of the terminal segment of the 
abdomen in the male. 
NOTES. 
Monolepta minima Alld. The « habitat » of this species is given 
by M. Allard as Zndia orient. In the collection of the Brussels 
Museum the insects bearing Allards name are labelled « Australia » 
which is no doubt the correct locality. 
Monolepta moluccensis Alld. 1888 — M. verticalis Baly 1888. 
Monolepta vulgaris Alld. — Candezea basalis Harold. 
Monolepta dichroa Alld. is identical with 27. apicalis Sahlberg. 
The name of 27. dichroa is already preocupied by Harold for another 
species. 
Platyzantha femoralis Ad. — Wetellus fuloicollis Jac. 
» rutilans Alld. belongs probably to the Halticidae 
having thickened posterior femora, the specimen so named in the 
Brussels collection is devoid of the tibiæ, so that it is impossible to 
decide its place. 
Phyllobrotica javana and bifasciala Jac. have been placed by 
