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medio leviter, ad latera fortiter punctato, punctis singulis squama 

 minuta straminea munitis, disco utrinque longitudinaliter excavato, 

 squamis stramineis sat dense obsito ; elytris lineatim sulcatis, intersti- 

 tiis punctulatis ; corpore infra fusco-castaneo, subtiliter punctulato ; 

 femoribus tibiisque punctis numerosis singulis squama elongata vel 

 filiformi munitis. Long. 4 lin. 

 Hab. Saylee (New Guinea). 



This species will hardly fail to recall the Brazilian Cholus alhi- 

 einctus, Germ. It will be recollected that Lacordaire was struck 

 with the resemblance of the only species he knew to the members 

 generally of that New-World tropical genus. 



Metanthia. 



(Baridinse.) 



Rostrum robustum, arcuatum, basi gibbosulum, apice depressum, 

 vix dilatatum ; scrobes submedianse. OcuU ovales, tenuiter 

 granulati. Antennce validae ; scapus breviusculus ; funiculus 

 articulo primo ampliato, cscteris cum clava continuatis. Pro- 

 tliorax conicus, lobo scutellari paulo producto, lobis ocularibus 

 haud prominulis. Smitellum distinctum. Klytra elongato- 

 trigonata. Pectus haud ampliatum, canaliculatum. Coxes 

 anticse manifeste separatse. 'Femora sublinearia, mutica, infra 

 caualiculata ; tibice rectse, apice calcaratse. Abdomen segmentis 

 duobus basalibus ampliatis, connatis. Corpus anguste sub- 

 rhomboideum, in M. nitidula ellipticum. 



Erom Ipsicliora this genus differs in its approximate coxae, less 

 marked, however, in M. nitidula, thick rostrum, raised at its base, 

 and short stout scape, not nearly attaining the eye. M. nitidula 

 has shorter and more cordate elytra than the first three species. 



Metanthia pyritosa. (PI. III. fig. 4.) M. splendide aureo- 

 viridis, igneo micans, scutello, femoribus tibiisque vel laete azureis vel 

 aureo-viridibus, tarsis nigris ; rostro sparse subtiliter punctato; antennis 

 ferrugineis ; prothorace sparse punctato ; elytris seriatim punctatis, 

 interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis; corpore infra inaequaliter punctato. 

 Long. 3|: lin. 



Hab. Dorey; Saylee. 



Metanthia ebenina. M. omnino atra, nitida, antennis fuscis 

 capite nitidissimo, impunctato ; prothorace subtilissime sparse 

 punctato ; elytris seriatim punctatis, serie yjrima basi punctis majori- 

 bus, apicem versus gradatim minoribus, seriebus reliquis subtiliter 



