i9, 5 Heller: New Philippine Coleoptera 587 
sides with a spotlike, condensed, yellowish squamosity, the 
central carina abbreviated in front and at base ; scutellum punc- 
tiform and bare; hind femora extending a little beyond apex 
of elytra; tibise with a series of remote, erect bristles; second 
joint of hind tarsi pyriform, longer than thick. 
Mecistceerus modestus sp. nov. 
Niger, supra squamositate subtili aequaliter lurido ac albido- 
variegata; antennis sanguineis, funiculi articulis quatuor dista- 
libus sphaericis; rostro apice rufescenti, basi carinulis tribus, 
dorsalibus ; prothorace crebre fortiterque punctato, carinula 
mediana tenui; scutello punctiformi, transverso, glabro; elytris 
latitudine fere sesqui longioribus (3.4:5), punctato-striatis, 
spatiis duabus, subsuturalibus, striis vix latioribus, ut reliquis 
remote seriato-subgranulatis, squamulis seriatis, vix eminentibus, 
luteis; corpore subter aequaliter lurido-squamoso, femora ma- 
cula dorsali, subapicali, albida; sternito primo, quasi ut meta- 
sterno, rude punctato. 
Long. 7.5 mm., lat. 3. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling. 
An inconspicuous, dirty-looking species with fine uniformly lu- 
teous and whitish varied scaling; thorax with a fine central 
carina; antennal funicle having the last four joints spheric, be- 
coming gradually larger toward the club; the latter one and 
one-half times longer than thick, subtruncate at base; elytra 
seriate-punctate, hardly striate, each puncture bearing a minute 
whitish scale within ; intervals slightly elevated at base, remotely 
and minutely subtransversely granulate ; first sternite as coarsely 
punctate as the metasternum ; femora with a white subapical 
dorsal patch. 
Mecistocerus latiusculus sp. nov. 
Niger, antennis sanguineis, parce ochraceo-squamosus ac seto- 
sus, prothorace fere semicirculari rude crebreque apice haud 
punctato, carinula mediana distincta ; scutello rotundato convexo, 
nigro-glabro ; elytris punctato-striatis, punctis rectangularibus 
aut quadratis, approximatis, spatiis aequilatis, in elytrorum 
triente apicali decrescentibus hie rotundatis ac spatiis multo 
angustioribus, his solum in dimidia parte basali subconvexiuscu- 
lis, ut sutura remote seriato-granulosis, corpore subter sat dense 
ochraceo-tomentoso ac setoso; femoribus posticis elytrorum api- 
cem attingentibus, vix punctatis, tibiis parum punctatis, remote 
breviterque erecti setosis. 
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