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of fifth to seventh intervals with a transverse white scale spot; 
rostrum at base fairly closely and indistinctly punctate; pro- 
thorax transverse, very densely punctate, with remote and trans- 
versely placed yellowish white bristle scales; elytra more than 
one and one-half times as long as broad, intervals somewhat 
convex and sparsely black setose, with a longitudinal row of re- 
mote white bristles; first joint of hind tarsi as long as the three 
following together. 
Metialma nigritana sp. nov. 
Aterrima, rostro apice antennisque sanguineis, illo utrinque 
basi oculorumque margine inferiors, prothorace ad angulos 
anticos, posticos et in angulo mediano, basali, elytris ad marginem 
basalem et in suturae dimidia parte basali tenuissime, partim 
vix perspicue, in suturae apice macula punctiforme, elongata, ut 
abdomine, densius albo-tomentosis ; rostro in parte basali cari- 
nulis quinque; prothorace creberrime punctato, margine apicali 
levi; elytris latitudine humerali vix decima parte longioribus 
(4.5 : 5), sat fortiter striatis, striis punctis oblongis, plus 
eorum longitudine inter se distantibus, seriatis, spatiis subtil- 
iter crebreque granulosis, parce subtilissimeque nigro-, corpore 
subter, meso-epimeris meta-episternisque fuscescenti-nigro-, py- 
gidio nigro piloso-squamosis ; corpore reliquo subter albo-piloso; 
femoribus posticis anulo mediano, lato, denudato; tibiis anticis 
fortiter curvatis. 
Long. 5 mm., lat. 2.5. 
Mindanao, Davao Province, Davao (7321). 
A dark species with an oblong white spot on apex of suture, 
somewhat similar to the South African M. moestificans Fahrs. 
Sides of rostrum and in continuation with it lower border of 
eye, an indistinct spot on anterior and posterior angles and on 
scutellar lobe of thorax, basal half of suture, and base of inter- 
vals, very finely and scarcely adpressed-pilose, the remainder 
dark brown setaceous ; rostrum in basal half with five fine cari- 
nulae, the inner two of which are somewhat irregular and inter- 
rupted here and there; apical part nearly smooth; prothorax 
closely and strongly umbilicate-punctate, the hairs of whitish 
spots transversely placed, apical margin bare; elytra deeply 
striate, the striae indistinctly and remotely punctate, the intervals 
closely and finely granulate-punctate ; underside, except the 
blackish meso-epimera and meta-episterna, covered with whitish 
