NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 63 
¢'. Third joint of the antennae strongly dilated and flattened. 
Length 41/, lines. 
Head very long, the vertex impunctate, Pulveli the frontal 
tubercles rather flattened, trigonate with a deep but small fovea 
at their base; lower part of face rugose, opaque, with a slightly 
raised central ridge, labrum broad, testaceous as well as the 
jaws and palpi, apices of the former piceous; antennae more 
than half the length of the body, testaceous, the 3 basal joints 
stained with piceous above, first joint robust, rather short and 
claviform, second, extremely short, moniliform, third dilated , 
long and with a deep impression within, the upper margin 
notched, the following joints nearly equal in length; thorax 
scarcely broader than long, the sides straight, narrowed near 
the anterior margin, posterior margin perfectly straight, surface 
rather flattened with two small fovea near the base, the inte- 
rior of which is very finely punctured; scutellum triangular , 
piceous like the thorax; elytra with a very few extremely 
minute punctures, purplish or greenish black, this colour divided 
by a broad fulvous transverse band which commences before , 
and ends below the middle; underside nearly black; legs testa- 
ceous, a streak at the underside of the femora and the outer 
sides of the tibiae, piceous; tarsi testaceous. 
Hab. Sumatra, Ajer Mantcior (O. Beccari). 
The single male specimen before me, agrees entirely in 
structural characters with the only other representative of this 
genus described by myself in the « Notes from the Leyden . 
Museum, vol. VI ». M. laevipennis may be known from N. fulvi- 
collis Jac., by its larger size, different colouration and the 
almost smooth elytra; the head like that of the allied species is 
of unusual length. The name of Neocharis having already been 
used for another genus of Coleoptera I hereby alter it to Meted/us. 
34. Luperus australis, n. sp. 
Blackish blue below, metallic violaceous blue above; the two 
or three basal and apical joints of the antennae, fulvous; thorax 
impunctate ; elytra extremely finely punctured. 
