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■medium vix planato, ut caput punctulato, lateribus ante 



medium subsinuatis, angulis anticis obtusis posticis minute 



dentiformibus ; elytris sat fortiter striatis, striis minus per- 



spieue punctulatis, interstitiis planis fortiter uniseriatim 



punctulatis. Long., If 1.; lat., i 1. (vix). 



This species is easily recognisable by the sculpture of its elytra ; 



the stride are strong but scarcely visibly punctured, the interstices 



flat and regular without the slightest trace of striation but with 



a single row of closely placed very conspicuous punctures which 



are scarcely smaller than the punctures of the pronotum and are 



the only conspicuous punctures on the elytra. The antennse are 



a little longer than in the other MyraholicB known to me, and the 



form of the prothorax is distinctive, the sides being slightly 



sinuate in front of their middle, and at the front of the sinuation 



the width of the prothorax being quite fully as wide as — to the 



eye it looks wider than, but by measurement I cannot make it 



so — at any other part. 



Victoria. 



M. longicollis, sp. nov. Oblonga ; vix depressa ; subnitida ; 

 subtiliter fulvo-pubescens ; f usco-ferruginea ; capite minus 

 lato, crebre sat fortiter subrugulose punctulato ; antennis 

 minus elongatis ; prothorace minus fortiter transverso, supra 

 ante medium vix planato, subfortiter sat crebre nee rugulose 

 punctulato, lateribus sat rectis, angulis anticis obtusis pos- 

 ticis minute vix subdentif ormibus ; elytris leviter punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis uniseriatim subtilius punctulatis externe 

 (certo adspectu) subtiliter vix carinatis (interstitiis 2° — 5'* 

 certo adspectu subtiliter striatis). Long., l^. 1.; lat., 1 1. 

 The elytral interstices have a peculiar structure — more or less 

 similar to that of nearly all the other Myraholice known to me — 

 which is difficult to describe. The space between each two striae 

 seems to be on a slightly inclined plane so that its external edge 

 is a trifle higher than the other edge and from a certain point of 

 view its external edge looks very finely cariniform — this has 

 some analogy with the structure of the interstices in many 

 L(smophlmi. The dorsal interstices moreover have a slight ten- 

 dency to the peculiar character — well-marked in M. parva, 

 Blackb,, and in the species that I take to be haroldiana^ Reitt. 

 — of each bearing a punctulate stria running down its middle 

 which from a certain point of view makes it appear as if there 

 were twice as many dorsal strife as in the species not possessing 

 this character. Here, however, it is very slight — so slight that 

 in tabulating the species of the genus I have disregarded it. This 

 species differs markedly from all its congeners known to me by 

 its very evidently narrower and less transverse prothorax . 

 Victoria. 



