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wide as the head, widest before the middle, the basal groove shallow, 

 incomplete. Elytra a little wider than the head, comparatively 

 short, rapidly narrowed from the middle, conjointly rounded at the 

 apex, transversely depressed helow the base, the usual impressed 

 bnes (the sutural and submarginal striae excepted) barely indicated. 

 Legs short ; femora strongly clavate ; basal joint of anterior tarsi 

 moderately thickened. 

 Length 2 1 \ r -2j mm. 



Hah. Borneo, Pengaron (Doherty). 



Two specimens, possibly sexes, one being broader than 

 the other. A minute form, with the general facies of an 

 Anthicus. It appears to be nearest allied to M. anthicoides, 

 Fairm., from Madagascar, and M. pygmaea, Pic, from 

 Balabac Isl., near Borneo. The very dense punctuation 

 of the upper surface, the close, fine pubescence, the broad 

 head, the abruptly widened, comparatively short terminal 

 three joints of the antennae, the non-striate dorsum 

 of the elytra, etc., separate M. pumilio from all the 

 other species of the genus here enumerated, the following 

 excepted. 



37. Macratria parvula, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, rather dull (till denuded), the head shining, 

 thickly clothed with fine, adpressed, brownish and cinereous pubes- 

 cence; nigro-piceous, the mouth-parts, palpi, antennae, and legs 

 (the partly infuscate posterior pair excepted) testaceous or rufo- 

 testaceous. Head nearly or quite as broad as the prothorax, trans- 

 verse, rounded at the base, densely, minutely punctate, the occipital 

 groove just indicated in the middle behind, the eyes large, distant ; an- 

 tennae rather short, slender, joints 9-11 abruptly thickened, 9 about 

 as broad as long, 10 a little shorter, 1 1 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax 

 oblong-oval, densely scabroso-punctate, the basal groove shallow, 

 incomplete. Elytra moderately long, much wider than the head, 

 gradually narrowed from the base, conjointly rounded at the tap; 

 densely scabroso-punctate, and shallowly, but distinctly striate. 

 Legs short, stout; femora strongly clavate; basal joint of anterior 

 tarsi moderately stout. 



Length 2£-2i mm. 



Hab. Philippine Is., Luzon and Alabat {Doherty). 



Three specimens. This is the Philippine representative 

 of the Bornean M. pumilio, from which it differs in the 

 rather robust build and more elongate genenil shape, the 

 longer antennae, with more acuminate apical joint, the 



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