is, 5 Heller: New Philippine Coleoptera 579 
dimidia parte basali fere parallelis, squamulis clavatis, setifor- 
mibus, in medio longioribus ac validioribus obsitis; scuteilo sub- 
quadrato, deplanato, nitido-castaneo ; elytris subtiliter striatis, 
spatio secundo ad basin callositate oblonga, ante medium altera, 
subrotundata, nigro-penicillatis ; corpore subter griseo-squamoso, 
abdomine praeterea setulis, incurvatis, albidis, remotis; meta- 
episternis ut femoribus tibiisque partim infuscatis, femoribus 
posticis sternitum quartum haud superantibus. 
Long. 4 mm., lat. 1.7. 
Basilan. 
Upper side dark, disk of thorax lighter ashy; rostrum, head, 
and semicircular patch at base of elytra which is as broad as 
elytra, as well as a small spot on each side of apical margin of 
the latter, ochraceous scaled; remotely beset throughout with 
erect setiform scales, of the same color as the surface upon which 
they are inserted; rostrum shorter than prothorax; antennse 
fulvous ; first joint of funicle short conical, one-fourth longer than 
thick, second equal to first but only half as thick, the following 
joints as long as thick, increasing in size toward club, this being 
oval and twice as long as thick; eyes coarsely granulate, sur- 
rounded behind by a furrow; prothorax broader than long 
(6 : 5), parallel-sided in basal half, anterior half semicircular, 
sparingly beset with anteriorly directed, club-shaped bristles; 
scutellum smooth, roundish, castaneous; elytra truncate at base 
and there broader than thorax, sides in anterior three-quarters 
parallel, second interval at base with an oblong, in the middle 
with a round, black, setose callosity; underside dirty whitish 
scaled, abdomen with whitish, curved bristles; femora nebulous 
brownish and with blackish, straight, sparse bristles ; claw joint 
sparingly white setose. 
Therebus ( ?) bifasciatus sp. nov. 
Oblongus, niger, thorace parte apicali, elytris basi, fascia post- 
mediana, apice corpore subter pedibusque (femorum apice nigro 
tibiisque nigris exceptis) cinereo-squamosis ; rostro capite lon- 
giore, basi excepto, nigro-nudo, sat dense punctato; antennis 
funiculi articulis 3. ad 7. transversis, clava breviter ovata; 
prothorace transverso, crebre punctato ac squamoso, dorso utrin- 
que impressione magna levissima ; scuteilo oblongo-elliptico, 
squamoso; elytris prothorace paulo latioribus, latitudine fere 
duplo longioribus, parallelis, distincte striato-punctatis, striis 
basin versus extrorsum subcurvatis, femoribus, linearibus, com- 
pressis, abdominis apicem vix attingentibus. 
