new species 3. In males, the basal plate (Fig. 6-5) and median lobe (Figs. 6-3 and 6-4)

are easily distinguished from all other species.

 Description. Male. Form: Elongate oval; contractile; strongly convex dorsally.

Length: 1.6 mm (measured from apex of clypeus to apex of elytra); breadth: 0.85-1.20

mm (measured across elytral humeri). Color: Head, thorax, elytra and underside dark

brown, lateral margin of pronotum and posterior margin of elytra yellowish and

translucent; legs and antennae brown. Head: Broad and convex, clypeus moderately

produced, narrow, and slightly reflexed. Eyes large, oblong, with internal margins

distinct. Genae not visible from above. Dorsal surface smooth under 100 times

magnification, distinctly alutaceous and finely punctate. Antennae 11-segmented

including a club with 3 antennomeres, club length about 12-23 size of the eye. Club flat

and distinctly separated from funicle and with a distinctly serrated margin. First club

antennomere wider than long, second club antennomere larger than either first or third

club antennomere and about as long as wide. Terminal club antennomere truncate (Fig.

6-2), setose and wider than long. Antennomere 3 as long or slightly longer than

antennomeres 4 and 5 combined. Pronotum: Strongly convex, lateral margins curved;

anterior angle more narrowly arcuate than posterior. Surface distinctly alutaceous with

fine punctation. Scutellum: Very large, alutaceous and triangular with straight to slightly

convex margins. Elytra: Uniform width narrowing at apical 1/5. Strongly convex, sides

slightly sinuous and apices rounded. Length slightly shorter than combined width

(35:41). Uniformly punctate along dorsal surface, smooth at sides and base with a large

impunctate area at apices of elytra. Appearing alutaceous under high magnification.

Median margin and apices of elytra bordered. Apices with distinct striations. Underside: