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semierect pale yellow hairs, which are broader than those on the 
reddish parts. Abdomen finely punctate and rugose. 
Length, 5.25 millimeters; width, 2. 
Described from two specimens. The type is from Mount Ma- 
quiling, Luzon {Baker) ; paratype from Butuan, Mindanao 
{Baker ) . 
In the specimen from Mindanao the pubescence on the elytra 
is white instead of pale yellow, but otherwise the two specimens 
are identical. ; 
Samiras parallelus sp. nov. 
Slender, nearly parallel, head and pronotum brassy green, the 
former with the front of a brighter green; surface of elytra 
black and brassy green, forming distinct designs ; beneath 
black, with bronzy tinge, nearly glabrous. 
Head deeply grooved its entire length, strongly, transversely 
rugose, and sparsely clothed with long white pubescence, becoming 
finer and slightly yellow on the occiput ; antennse coppery, reach- 
ing to basal third of pronotum ; clypeal suture indistinct ; epistoma 
wide, transverse between antennse. Pronotum much wider than 
long, about as wide in front as behind; sides flattened and 
arcuate, slightly sinuate posteriorly, with the lateral margin 
crenulate; anterior margin bisinuate, with a broadly rounded 
median lobe ; base strongly bisinuate, with a large median lobe, 
truncate in front of scutellum; lateral carina strongly arcuate, 
reaching perpendicularly from posterior angles to middle; disk 
convex, limited at basal third by a widely rounded transverse 
depression, becoming deeper near lateral carina ; surface concen- 
trically rugose on the disk and very densely punctate on the 
inside of the lateral carina, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs, 
becoming white in front of scutellum. Scutellum violaceous 
black, large and triangular; surface finely reticulate. Elytra a 
little narrower at base than middle of pronotum, rather convex, 
with a wide depression along suture at apical fifth ; sides strongly 
sinuate at posterior coxse, expanded at apical third, then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly, broadly 
rounded and rather strongly dentate; surface strongly imbri- 
cate, indistinctly clothed with minute black hairs and distinctly 
marked with brassy green areas, these brassy areas clothed with 
white and yellow pubescence as follows: Each elytron with a 
narrow irregular band along base and suture, reaching to the 
apical third and connected to a similar band along the lateral 
margin by three irregular and broken transverse bands on the 
