as, 4 
Fisher: New Coleoptera from the Philippines 433 
Trachys ovata sp. nov. 
Ovate, moderately convex, rounded posteriorly; head and pro- 
notum dark bronzy; beneath black; elytra piceous with bronzy 
reflection. 
Head with the front rather deeply concave between the eyes, 
with an indistinct median longitudinal groove reaching from 
apex to clypeal suture ; surface with a small round puncture near 
base of antennae, rather densely marked with indistinct circles 
and clothed with short, white and yellow, recumbent hairs inter- 
mixed ; eyes rather strongly margined on the inner side ; epistoma 
wide, flat, finely, transversely strigose, anterior margin rectan- 
gularly emarginate, the angles rather broad; antennae rather 
widely separated; clypeal suture indistinct. Pronotum short, 
three times as wide as long, slightly narrower in front than be- 
hind ; surface densely marked with indistinct circles, and clothed 
with short, white and golden yellow, recumbent hairs intermixed ; 
anterior margin slightly, arcuately emarginate, the angles 
obtuse; sides finely crenulate, oblique and slightly arcuate; base 
bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median lobe in front of scutel- 
lum. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra a little wider than 
pronotum at base, sligtly sinuate to posterior coxse, then strong- 
ly, arcuately attenuate to tips, which, are conjointly rounded; 
humeri moderately prominent; surface without lateral carina, 
very finely and densely punctate, with a broad, shallow depression 
at base and a deeper one along lateral margin behind the hume- 
rus, rather densely clothed with short, silvery white and golden 
yellow, recumbent pubescence, the white hairs forming irregular 
designs on the basal half, and two distinct zigzag lines, the first 
just behind the middle and the other one at the apical fourth. 
Beneath rather convex, abdomen marked with semicircular lines 
and very finely granulate, sparsely clothed with short, recum- 
bent, white hairs; prostemum not distinctly divided into two 
parts, anterior margin truncate and margined; intercoxal pro- 
cess elongate, wider behind than in front, sides slightly 
margined, apex rounded ; mesosternum with the anterior margin 
arcuately emarginate; tarsi and claws black; tarsal lamellae 
paler. 
Length, 2.5 millimeters; width, 1.5. 
Described from three specimens in the United States National 
Museum collection labeled “Acc. No. 996, Bur. Agri., P. I., collected 
by C. R. Jones,” without a definite locality. The Bureau of Agri- 
