220 Mr. Gr. C. Champion on 



sculptured, the antennae entirely testaceous,- with the 

 apical joint much longer in <$ than in $. The eyes are 

 smaller and the elytra longer than in the somewhat similar 

 M. dentipes from Macassar, etc. Two of Mr. Andrewes' 

 Indian Macratriae were described by Fairmaire in 1896, 

 both from Belgaum, and both unique, but they cannot be 

 very nearly related to M. nilgirica. 



24. Macratria neoguineensis. 



? Macratria rubriceps, var. 1 neoguineensis, Pic, Ann. Mus. 

 Genova, xl, p. 601 (1900). 



Elongate, robust, dull, the head shining, densely clothed with 

 fine, adpressed, brownish -cinereous pubescence, that on the elytra 

 partly concealing the sculpture; piceous, the head, the prothorax 

 indeterminately in front, and the metasternum in part, rufescent, 

 the labrurn, palpi, antennae (the three or four infuscate outer joints 

 excepted), and legs (the slightly infuscate tibiae and basal joint of 

 the posterior pair excepted), testaceous or flavo -testaceous. Head 

 large, broad, rounded at the sides behind, subtruncate and very 

 feebly notched in the centre at the base, densely, minutely punctate ; 

 eyes very large, distant ; antennae long, slender, joints 9-1 1 thickened 

 and greatly elongated, 9 and 10 equal, 11 much longer than 10. 

 Prothorax oblong-oval, about as wide as the head, obliquely com- 

 pressed on the flanks posteriorly, the basal groove almost obsolete 

 in the middle ; very densely scabroso-punctate. Elytra moderately 

 long, much wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowing from the 

 base; very densely, minutely punctate, and also finely punctato- 

 striate to near the apex, the interstices subcostate externally. 

 Pygidium entire. Legs stout; basal joint of anterior tarsi much 

 thickened. 



Length 5 mm. (<J $ ?) 



Hab. New Guinea, Salwatty {Wallace), Ramoi (L. M. 

 d'Albertis : type). 



Two specimens from Salwatty, acquired by the British 

 Museum in 1862, are perhaps referable to the form named 

 as above by Pic, and doubtfully included by him under 

 M. rubriceps. They agree with M . fulvipes, Pasc, from 

 Macassar, in having very densely punctate, distinctly 

 striate, closely pubescent elytra, a rough prothorax, etc. ; 

 the head, however, in the present insect is larger, more 

 rounded at the sides posteriorly, broadly truncate behind, 

 and rufous in colour, and the elytra are less narrowed 

 posteriorly. M. rubriceps is said to have the elytra 



