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truncate, slightly swollen ; the prosternal process rather con- 
vex, very sparsely and rather strongly punctate, margined 
at the sides and very acutely narrowed at the apex. Abdomen 
covered with sparse aciculate punctuation ; the last abdomi- 
nal segment broadly emarginate apically, between two long 
spines. Posterior legs long, the tarsi more than half as 
long as the tibiae; first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as 
the second, the fourth joint very short. 
A single specimen of this new species (type, M. C. Z. no. 
22,513) was found, in good condition, in the stomach of a 
bird, Povcilodryas albonotata Hart., at Mt. Misim, Morobe 
District, New Guinea, by Mr. Herbert Stevens. 
Genus Sambus H. Deyr. 
Sambus manni n. sp. (PI. IV, Fig. 6) 
Length : 3.9 mm. ; breadth : 1.7 mm. — $ . Small, short, 
subparallel at middle; aeneous above, with purplish reflec- 
tions. The front and the two first joints of the antennae 
reddish purple; beneath, black, with the legs more or less 
blackish aeneous. Entirely clothed above with regular, 
whitish pubescence which does not conceal the ground ; two 
lateral elytral impressions, and the scutellum, glabrous. 
Head very convex in front, deeply grooved, the groove 
becoming less distinct on the front and quite obsolete be- 
hind the middle; finely punctate and clothed with silvery 
pubescence. The portion of the front between the eyes 
rectangular and slightly longer than wide; epistoma sepa- 
rated from the front by a carina, emarginate in front, de- 
pressed in the middle. Eyes very convex, elliptic, more than 
twice as long as wide. Antennae black, serrate from the 
fifth joint, short, reaching the middle of the pronotum. 
Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, distinctly nar- 
rower in front than behind ; anterior margin bisinuate, with 
the median lobe feebly prominent and broadly rounded ; the 
sides flattened and nearly regularly arcuate, with the lateral 
margins finely crenulate, particularly behind the middle; 
base strongly bisinuate with median lobe broadly rounded in 
front of the scutellum ; lateral carinse entire, slightly sinuate ; 
posterior angles entirely rounded, angular carinae very arcu- 
ate, reaching from the posterior angles to the apical fourth ; 
