i9, 5 Heller: New Philippine Coleoptera 585 
Mecistocerus sollicitus Faust. 
This species is easily distinguishable by the divergent bristles 
on the edged and rounded lateral margin of the thorax. It 
was described from Celebes, but occurs also in the Philippines. 
Its color is somewhat variable, a male from Mount Banahao, 
Luzon (4516 Baker), showing the dark brown discal patch on 
the elytra divided by a fawn-colored interval. A male from 
Malinao, Tayabas Province, Luzon, and a female from Los Ba- 
nos, Luzon, show this patch dissolved into rows of remote dark 
dots, three situated on the second interval and one or two on 
the fourth. The length of this species varies between 7 and 11.5 
millimeters. 
Mecistocerus nigrostriatus Chevr. 59 
This species, described from the Andaman Islands, occurs 
also in Java, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands; from the last- 
named I have a female specimen from Zamboanga, Mindanao, 
before me. 
Mecistocerus indigenus Faust. 
Mecistocerus indigenus Faust, 60 from Java, occurs also in the 
Philippine Islands. 
Luzon, Mount Banahao. Mindanao, Dapitan (13187, 13198). 
Mecistocerus montanus sp. nov. 
Niger, antennis articulisque duabus tarsalibus ultimis obscure 
sanguineis, corpore supra squamositate nigra, albido-variegata, 
subter cana tecto; rostro in dimidia parte basali carinulis dor- 
salibus tribus in parte apicale dorso glabro; antennis funiculi 
articulo primo valde incrassato, septimo sphaerico; prothorace 
transverse (3 : 3.5) rude crebreque punctato, carinula mediana, 
utrinque vitta sublaterali ante medium late interrupta cano- 
squamosa; scutellum punctiforme sphaerico; elytris latitudine 
plus sesqui longioribus (23 : 37) , fortiter punctato-substriatis, 
punctis apicem versus decrescentibus, singulo fundo squamula, 
spatiis squamulis remote uniseriatis breviter setiformibus lu- 
teis, macula humerali oblonga, altera subrotundata in callo sub- 
apicali, reliquis irregulariter marmoratis, femoribus macula 
subapicali dorsali, tibiis basi dimidiaque parte apicali albido- 
squamosis; sternito primo, medio, punctis paucis quam meta- 
sterni punctis minoribus, sternito secundo praecedenti subtilius 
punctato. 
Naturalist (1882) 143. 
60 Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 57 (1896) 153. 
