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Darlington — Demetrida 
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Fig. 1. Demetrida latangula Darlington 
Fig. 2. Demetrida moluccensis n. sp. 
sculpture indistinct on head and pronotum, light and imperfect on 
elytra. Head 1.10 and 1.03 width prothorax; eyes normal, promi- 
nent, genae short and oblique; front nearly flat, slightly irregularly 
impressed between eyes especially at sides. Prothorax quadrate; 
width/length 1.03 and 1.05; base/apex 1.17 and 1.15; base/head 
0.83 and 0.83 ; margins narrow, each with seta-bearing puncture at 
middle but none at base; disc with middle line well impressed, 
transverse impressions very weak, baso-lateral impressions weak, 
they and marginal areas punctate; disc otherwise virtually impunctate 
but faintly transversely stringulose. Elytra: width elytra/prothorax 
2.05 and 1.98; apices with outer angles well defined, right or slightly 
obtuse, then broadly emarginate to long spines c. opposite 3rd inter- 
vals, then emarginate to obtuse sutural angles; striae well impressed, 
scarcely punctulate; intervals somewhat convex, 3rd 2-punctate. 
Inner wings fully developed. Lower surface not distinctly punctate. 
Legs: claws each with c. 6 long teeth. Secondary sexual characters: 
cf front tarsi narrowly biseriately squamulose ( as usual in genus) ; 
cf middle tibiae nearly straight, briefly tuberculate-serrate (c. 3 
tubercles) distally on inner edge; cf with 2$ apparently 3 seta- 
