568 
The Philippine Journal of Science 
1921 
Colobodellus alboscutellatus sp. nov. Plate 2, fig. 11. 
Niger, tarsis ferrugineis, tomento atro obtectus, elytris callo- 
sitatibus nigro-velutinis, scutello fasciaque obliqua, anteapicali, 
laterali, albido-, intus dissoluta ac ochraceo-tomentosis ; rostro 
crassitudine circiter triple longiore, in dimidia parte apieali vix, 
in parte basali sat crebre punctato ac squamoso, dorse, utrinque 
carinula laterali; antennis fulvis, funiculi articulo secundo primo, 
incrassato, paulo, ipso crassitudine fere triple longiore, reliquis 
sensim brevioribus ac crassioribus ; prothorace transverse, lateri- 
bus antrorsum rotundato-convergentibus, crebre fortiterque 
punctato, linea mediana levi, seria transversa mediana e pustulis 
quatuor nigro-velutinis ; scutello elliptico ; elytris prothorace 
latioribus, latitudine vix sesqui longioribus, subtiliter punctato- 
striatis, spatiis pustulis nigro-velutinis videlicet: una utrinque 
oblonga ad basin in spatio secundo et quarto, altera subrotundata 
in sutura, spatio secundo, quarto sextoque, seriebus tribus trans- 
versis una basali, una mediana alteraque postmediana forman- 
tibus, sutura basin versus sensim angustata, striis spatiisque 
atomis albidis remote seriatis, apice copiosis; corpore subter 
albido-, femoribus in dimidia parte basali ut abdomine nigri- 
cantibus. 
Long. 4.2 mm., lat. 2.2. 
Mindanao, Agusan Province, Butuan. 
In size and habitus rather similar to Systaltopezus nodosus 
Faust; dull black; antennae fulvous, tarsi reddish brown, scutel- 
lum pure white, an oblique and slightly curved band, beginning 
on elytra above hind margin of first sternite and running back- 
ward to suture, white, inwardly diffuse and ochraceous, apical 
margin of elytra, except the black apex of suture, grayish to- 
mentose ; rostrum nearly as long as thorax, scaled in basal half and 
densely punctured, in apical half hardly punctured; second joint 
of funicle three times longer than the much incrassate first, third 
hardly one and a half times as long as thick, the following becom- 
ing gradually thicker and shorter; club three times longer than 
thick; prothorax in the middle with a transverse row of four 
velvet black pustules ; elytra with three transverse rows of such 
pustules, two oblong callosities on each side at base of second 
and fourth intervals, and four roundish callosities on each side 
in and behind the middle, on the suture, and on the second, 
fourth, and sixth intervals, forming a backwardly, convexly 
curved row; each puncture of strise and intervals with a minute 
white scale bristle, more densely set toward apex; underside 
