576 The Philippine Journal of Science 1921 
Micrapries echinus sp. nov. 
Oblongus, albido, scutello suturaque ad basin fusco-squamosis, 
remote erecteque setosus ; rostro prothorace breviore, fere usque 
ad apicem squamoso, antennis prope ante rostri medium insertis, 
clava, nigra excepta, fulvis, funiculi articuli secundo primo, in- 
crassato, longiore ac tenuiore, tertio crassitudine duplo longiore, 
tres sequentibus crassitudine haud longioribus, clavam versus 
crescentibus ; prothorace longitudine latitudine aequali, in di~ 
midia parte apicali semicirculari, in dimidia parte basali rectis, 
basin versus subconvergentibus ac trituberculatis, disco seria 
transversa, e tuberculis quatuor, fuscescenti bi- aut trisetosis 
formata ; elytris spatiis alternatis convexioribus ac remote seria- 
to-tuberculatis, spatio secundo ad basin callositate, oblonga, 
pluri-, tuberculis reliquis uni-setoso-squamosis. 
Long. 4 mm., lat. 2. 
Luzon, Mount Banahao (264.5). 
Dirty white, elytra brownish white, the oblong scutellum and 
the basal part of suture nut brown ; rostrum, except the smooth 
apex, densely squamose, set with very scattered bristles; an- 
tennae yellowish brown, the club black, second joint of funicle 
nearly three times longer than the thickened first joint; thorax in 
anterior part semicircular, the sides in posterior part nearly 
parallel, with small tubercles; disk with a tranverse row of 
four tubercles, each bearing 3 or 4 brownish scale bristles ; elytra 
punctate-striate, the alternate intervals convex, set with very 
remotely seriate granules, each bearing a spatuliform scale 
bristle, second interval with an oblong callosity bearing several 
bristles, shoulders slightly prominent; underside whitish scaled. 
Genus PARAPRIES novum 
Corpus oblongum, squamosum ac setosum. Rostrum cylin- 
dricum, prothorace brevius usque ad apicem, subdilatatum, squa- 
mosum, basi utrinque sulco glabro, transverso, ab aculo separa- 
tum. Antennae antemedianae, funiculo 7-articulato. Protho- 
rax lobis ocularibus distinctis. Scutellum tomentosum. Elytra 
prothorace latiora, lateribus parallelis, basi parum producta. 
Metasternum inter coxas intermedias perpendiculariter declive, 
subconcavo ac marginem elevatum concavum formante. Fe- 
mora sublinearia, dentata, sternitum quartum vix superantia. 
Tarsi breviusculi. 
Typus, Apries histrio Faust, ex Birma. 
