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nearly with Pic's description of M. forticornis that there 

 can be little doubt as to its identification. M. wallacei, 

 from Waigiou, has a similarly shaped head and prothorax, 

 and black antennae, these organs being longer and broader 

 in the present species; M. forticornis, moreover, is a longer 

 and larger insect, with the upper surface densely sculptured 

 and subopaque, instead of shining and submetallic as in 

 M. wallacei. 



4. Macratria subguttata. 

 o. Macratria subguttata, Pasc, Journ. Ent. i, p. 56 (1860). 



cJ. Elongate, narrow, shining, rather sparsely clothed with long, 

 fine, adpressed, cinereous hairs, the elytra with a faint transverse 

 fascia of whitish hairs at some distance below the base; black, the 

 labrum, palpi, antennae (the infuscate joints 9-11 excepted), and 

 tarsi in part (joint 1 of the posterior pair excepted), testaceous, the 

 rest of the legs in great part piceous. Head rather large, rounded 

 posteriorly, without occipital groove, closely, minutely punctate, 

 with a narrow smooth space down the middle; eyes very large, oval, 

 distant; antennae very long, slender, joints 9-11 moderately thick- 

 ened, 9 and 10 subequal, each slightly longer than those preceding, 

 11 straight, nearly three times as long as 10. Prothorax narrower 

 than the head, convex, elongate-oval, obliquely compressed on the 

 flanks posteriorly, the basal groove deep; closely, finely punctate. 

 Elytra moderately long, considerably wider than the head, gradually 

 narrowing from the base, transversely depressed anteriorly ; closely, 

 finely punctate, finely striato-punctate to about the middle, the 

 submarginal stria nearly reaching the apex Lateral lobes of 

 aedeagus long, parallel-sided, obtuse and undilated at tip. Legs 

 long, rather slender, the femora strongly clavate; joint 1 of the 

 anterior tarsi thickened and that of the posterior pair curved; 

 posterior tibiae simple. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hab. Batchian (Wallace). 



Pascoe's diagnosis of this species is almost too brief 

 for the purposes of identification. The $, now described 

 in detail, received by the Museum in 1862, is narrower 

 than the? type from" the same island, and wants the faint 

 second whitish fascia on the elytra; the $ also has shorter 

 antennae, with joint 11 not longer than 9 and 10 united. 

 The genitalia are partly extruded in the <$, a pair of long, 

 straight, widely-separated processes being visible, these 

 partly covering two shorter curved appendages. 



