470 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907. 
beneath ; (3) mandibles short, not decussating; (4) front not de- 
cidedly biimpressed ; (5) elytra fully striate, 8% stria well marked; 
(6) posterior tarsi with basal joint much longer than second 
(nearly as long as two succeeding joints together). The sinus 
of the mentum is edentate. 
Tribe Trigonotomini!). 
Sub-tribe Morionides. 
(Genus Morio. 
Morio d’Albertisi Chaudoir. (Gazelle Peninsula.) 
Morio longipennis Putzeys. (New Guinea; Stephans Ort, 
Simbang, Baining Berge. — Also found in Australia.) 
Sub-tribe Zrögonotomides. 
Genus Lestieus. 
Lesticus nitescens n. sp. 
2. Elongate-oval, depressed; elytra feebly striate. Upper 
surface nitid, head and pronotum olive green, elytra purple black 
(polished, submetallice with purple reflections); under surface, 
legs, clipeus and mandibles black; tarsi, antennae and mouth 
parts piceous. 
Head large (4.5 mm across eyes), biimpressed between bases 
of antennae, impressions short, out-turned at posterior extremity 
(at anterior supra-orbital seta). Prothorax broader than long 
(4.7 x 6.25 mm), depressed on disc, laevigate, a little broader 
at base (4.7 mm) than at apex (4.5 mm); sides lightly rounded, 
obliquely narrowed to base, hardly subsinuate just before base; 
apex lishtly emarginate; anterior angles obtuse; basal angles 
rectangular with summit obtuse; lateral basal impressions shallow, 
wide and flat at bottom. Elytra truncate-oval (12><8 mm); 
striae finely punctate, not deeper towards apex; interstices flat, 
3" 3-punctate; inner humeral angle marked. Metasternum on 
each side, and all the episterna with deep punctures. Three 
!) The late M. Tschitscherine proposed to replace the tribal 
names Feronini (inadmissable, as founded on the preoccupied generic 
name Feronia) and Pterostichini (inadmissable, in M. Tschitscherine’s 
opinion, as founded on what is merely a subgenus of Platysma) by 
Platysmatini (1899). If, however, the tribal name Pterostichini (Erichson, 
1837) requires to be changed, it seems to me that, while the genus 
Trigonotoma remains in the tribe, the tribal name should be under the 
law of priority Trigonotomini (Castelnau, Etudes Entomologiques, 1834). 
