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1921 
Menechirus 83 fuscodorsalis sp. nov. 
M. oculato Hartm. paulo major ac convexior, avellano, elytris 
plaga communi dorsali prothoraceque lateribus brunneo-squamo- 
sis; rostro prothorace paulo, latitudine dorsali triple longiore, 
dense squamoso, dorso deplanato; antennis funiculo sat crasso 
brevique funiculi articulo secundo primo breviore, quinque se- 
quentibus distincte transversis; prothorace trans verso-sub - 
conico, margine antico in medio tuberculis duabus minutis, disco, 
ante medium, duabus majoribus nigro-velutinis ; scutello sufo- 
elongato-rotundato, ut elytrorum margine basali, inter striam 
tertiam, pallide ferrugineo-squamoso, elytris latitudine longi- 
tudine aequali, spatiis alternatis subconvexioribus, plaga dorsali, 
acuminato-ovata, inter striam secundam et quartam, ramo, qua- 
drato, basin attingente ; corpore subter stramineo-squamoso ; 
femoribus, praesertim anticis fortiter incrassatis. 
Long. 7.3 mm., lat. 5. 
Luzon, in seeds of Eugenia s'uborbicularis imported from Port 
Darwin, Australia, Bureau of Science accession No. 2121 (A. G. 
Beilis ) . 
A hazel-colored species with a brown, common, dorsal patch 
upon the elytra which extends between the second and fourth 
strise to the base; sides of the nearly conical thorax brown; 
alternate intervals of elytra slightly more convex ; anterior 
femora strongly incrassate. 
COLOBODES, DERETIOSUS, AND APRIES 
Pascoe 34 has given a key of the genera allied to Chaetotectorus 
to which he added later 35 the genus Apries Pasc. He thus con- 
fused at once Lacordaire’s definition of “Cryptorhynchides 
vrais” 36 which were differentiated from the three other “Sous- 
Tribus” by the rostral canal being delimited behind by the meso- 
sternum, because in Apries it is delimited by the metasternum, 
which is moreover produced between the coxae into a nodose 
process. A. M. Lea also neglects Lacordaire’s definition to the 
extent of arranging Deretiosus, which is without a mesosternal 
88 This genus was established by Hartmann on a Papuan species. The 
new species imported into the Philippine Islands from Australia agrees 
with it, except in the formation of the antennas, and therefore the characters 
of the genus must be extended; moreover the anterior coxas are remote 
in both species and so it seems better to place it in the Haplonicidas. 
Menechirus represents a Haplonyx with two unguiculi. 
84 Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1870) 478. 
83 Journ. Linn. Soc. 11 (1871) 196. 
80 Genera Coleop. 7 (1866) 50. 
