206 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



5. Maeratria gestroi. (Plate LXIV, fig. 14, <$, head in 

 profile.) 



? Maeratria gestroi, Pic, Ann. Mus. Genova, xl, p. 598 

 (1900). 



Elongate, narrow, very shining, rather sparsely clothed with fine, 

 adpressed, yellowish or cinereous hairs, the elytra with a denser 

 transverse fascia of white hairs at about the basal third (not reach- 

 ing the suture) and an evanescent patch of similar hairs on the 

 disc towards the apex, the prothorax also with some white hairs 

 at the base; black, the labrum, palpi, antennae (the more or less 

 infuscate apical three joints excepted), tarsi (joint 1 of the posterior 

 pair excepted), and in one specimen the anterior and intermediate 

 femora and pygidium also, testaceous. Head about as long as 

 broad, moderately large, rapidly narrowing behind the large eyes, 

 very sparsely minutely punctate, smooth down the middle, arcuately 

 ($) or subangularly (<$) produced at the base, without trace of occi- 

 pital sulcus; antennae long, very slender, joints 9-11 thickened and 

 elongated in £, 11 nearly as long as 9 and 10 united. Prothorax 

 a little narrower than, in the $ about as broad as, the head, convex, 

 oblong-oval, attenuate in front, obliquely compressed on the flanks 

 posteriorly, the basal groove deep; sparsely, minutely punctate. 

 Elytra comparatively short, gradually narrowing from the base; 

 rather sparsely, finely punctate, the punctures coarser and seriately 

 arranged down the anterior half, the interstices feebly costate 

 externally. Lateral lobes of aedeagus long, widened outwards, 

 bifurcate at tip. Legs long, rather slender, the femora strongly 

 clavate; basal joint of anterior tarsi subcylindrical ; posterior tibiae 

 slightly sinuate within in $. 



Length 4-4 J mm. (<J?.) 



Hob. New Guinea {Wallace, in Mus. Oxon., <$ $, and 

 Mus. Brit., <$), Dilo {Dr. Loria : type). 



The three specimens obtained by Wallace seem to be 

 referable to M. gestroi, Pic, or its var. obscuripes* so far 

 as can be judged from the brief description. They are 

 smoother, more shining, and a little less elongate than 

 M. subguttata, Pasc, from Batchian; the head is more 

 rapidly narrowed behind the eyes, and more or less pro- 

 duced in the middle at the base, the basal portion being 

 subangular and polished in the male; the antennae are 

 less elongate; the prothorax is more sparsely and much 

 more finely punctate, etc. 



* Nee M. obscuripes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv, p. 12 (1912). 



