IS, 4 
Fisher: New Coleoptera from the Philippines 431 
wide as long, much narrower in front than behind; surface 
densely marked with circles, becoming less distinct on the 
anterior part of the disk, rather densely clothed with short, white 
and golden yellow, recumbent hairs intermixed, giving it a 
variegated appearance ; anterior margin slightly, arcuately emar- 
ginate, the angles obtuse; sides finely crenulate and slightly, 
obliquely arcuate ; base strongly bisinuafe, with a widely 
angulated median lobe in front of the scutellum. Scutellum 
very small, triangular. Elytra a little wider than pronotum 
at base, slightly sinuate near the posterior coxae, then strongly 
arcuate to the tips, which are conjointly, widely rounded and 
slightly gibbose; humeri not prominent; surface without lateral 
carina, finely, densely punctate and rather strongly rugose, with 
a wide, shallow depression along base and a similar one along 
lateral margin near the posterior coxae, uniformly, densely 
clothed with short, white and reddish yellow, recumbent pubes- 
cence, except a large U-shaped design on the disk, composed of 
very slender, dense, black hairs, the design reaching from the 
base to the apical third. Beneath convex; abdomen densely 
reticulate and finely granulate, sparsely clothed with inconspic- 
uous white hairs ; prosternum not distinctly divided into two 
parts, anterior margin truncate and distinctly margined; inter- 
coxal process elongate, flat, nearly parallel, sides distinctly 
margined, apex broadly rounded ; mesosternum with the anterior 
margin arcuately emarginate; tarsi and lamellae yellow; claws 
black. 
Length, 4 millimeters; width, 2.25. 
One specimen from Davao, Mindanao ( Baker 8341). 
Trachys princeps Saunders. 
This beautiful species is represented in the United States Na- 
tional Museum collection by two specimens; one labeled “Acc. 
No. 1710 Bur. Agri., P. I., collected by C. R. Jones,” without 
any definite locality, and the other one labeled “Lamao, Luzon, 
P. I., III-VT, 11, C. V. Piper, collector.” The Bureau of Agri- 
culture gives Lamao as the locality for the specimen collected by 
Jones. 
Trachys marmorata sp. nov. 
Oblong-ovate, slightly convex, rounded posteriorly, head of a 
bright bronzy color, pronotum and elytra piceous, the former 
with bronzy reflections, pubescent; beneath shining black, with 
metallic reflections. 
