184 METOPODONTUS SPECTABILIS. 
the apex. They are provided at the base of the inner 
margin with a blunt tooth and under this tooth, a trifle 
more anteriorly, another smaller one is present. In the 
larger specimen these basal teeth are preceded by an 
untoothed space reaching as far as the middle of the inner 
margin, whereas the apical half of this margin is provided 
in the left mandible with four, in the right one with five 
or six blunt teeth of which the foremost one lies in a 
lower level. In the smaller specimen the inner margin of 
the mandibles is provided with a rather regular row of 
blunt teeth. The sculpturing of the mandibles is very 
delicate and intermixed with distinct punctures. 
The sculpturing of the head agrees with that of the 
mandibles. The front margin of the head is deeply and 
regularly emarginate; behind the emargination the head is 
broadly depressed, the depression crescentshaped (in the 
smaller specimen the head is flat above). The clypeus is 
slightly produced, and bluntly pointed at the middle of 
the front margin, forming a horizontal accolade. The ocular 
canthus does not reach the middle of the eyes. The clava 
of the antennae shows five pubescent leaflets which are 
narrow and elongate. 
The prothorax is strongly transverse, somewhat narrower 
in front than at the base; the anterior angles are pro- 
minent; the posterior ones obliquely rounded, with upturned 
margin, but without distinct tooth. The sculpturing is 
similar to that of the head, but the punctures less distinct on 
the disk. Scutellum heartshaped, with very distinct punctures. 
Elytra parallel, conjointly rounded behind, humeral angles 
dentiform. The puncturing is very minute, across the base, 
however, the punctures are better visible. 
The intercoxal part of the prosternum is conically pro- 
longed backward. The anterior tibiae are straight, the in- 
termediate and posterior ones unarmed in the larger spe- 
cimen, with a slight vestige of a spine on the middle of 
the outside in the smaller specimen. 
Hab. Solok: Highlands of Padang (West-Sumatra). — 
Both males are in the Leyden Museum. They were pre- 
sented to us by Mr. P. O. Stolz. 
Leyden Museum, June 1912, 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
