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attingens ; funiculus septemarticulatus, artictJis duobus basali- 

 bus elongatis, caeteris breviter obconicis ; clava distincta. Oculi 

 mediocres, tenuiter granulati. ProtJiorax apice angustus, late- 

 ribus ampliato-rotundatus, basi truncatus. Elytra subcordi- 

 formia, prothorace vix latiora. Pedes antici majores ; femora 

 incrassata, infra dentata ; tibicB subrectse, apice baud uncinatae; 

 tarsi articulo tertio lobis angustis, divaricatis, quarto elongato ; 

 unguiculi divergentes ; pectus elongatum, ampliatum ; coxce 

 anticse globosse, sejuncfcse. Abdomen segmento secundo am- 

 pliato. 



A curious genus, for wbich at present I am unable to suggest 

 any affinity ; provisionally it may be placed after Mervphus. 



TiTHENE MiCROCEPHALA. (PI. III. fig. ]3.) T. nigra, subnitida, 

 capite pone oculos macula fulva ornato, rostro capite quintuple lon- 

 giore, supra tricarinato, carinis apicem versus serratis; antennis 

 ochraceis, scape clavaque infuscatis ; funiculo articulo primo secundo 

 longiore ; prothorace longitudine latitudini sequali, tenuiter confertim 

 punctulato ; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis approximatis, intersti- 

 tiis confertim punctulatis ; tibiis anticis intus longe pilosis. Long. 

 21 lin. 



Hab. Sarawak. 



Metrioxena subvittata. M. pallide brunnea, elytris vitta testacea 

 arcuata ab humero fere usque ad apicem signatis ; rostro minus tenuato, 

 opaco, manifeste punctato, basi supra oculum utrinque producto ; an- 

 tennis fulvis ; prothorace minus leviter punctato, quinquecarinato, 

 marginibus irregulariter erosis ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 quinto et octavo elevatis ; corpore infra ferrugineo-testaceo, subtiliter 

 punctulato. Long. 1 5 lin. 



Hab. Macassar. 



The upper part of the rostrum at tbe base is bifurcated, and 

 forms a well-marked ridge above each eye. In my specimens of 

 this species and its only congener, M. sericollis (ante, vol. x. 

 p. 442), tbe abdomen bas six segments; but this may possibly 

 be sexual. It was a mistake to compare the genus to Apion ; the 

 contour at least is not unlike Oxycorynus. 



Belus Wallacei, B. elongatus, chalybeatus ; antennis piceis ; rostro 

 nigro; capite tenuiter punctulato ; prothorace subconico, subtiliter vage 

 punctulato, in medio baud canaliculato, lobo scutellari bifido ; scutello 

 valde transverso ; elytris postice gradatim latioribus, subseriatim punc- 

 tatis, p dnctis in regione suturali majoribus, apice paulo productis nigro- 

 funiculatis, singulis postice maculis duabus, e squamulis niveis con- 



