Genus Metatropiphorus Reuter, 1872

Diagnosis.

Elongate, narrow finely pubescent species having the head behind eyes constricted to form a long cylindrical neck; vertex with two fine median grooves; rostrum reaching front coxae; pronotum about as wide at base as long, strongly constrict ed behind middle, front lobe with a narrow median carina, and side margins distinct; hemelytra surpassing tip of abdomen, membrane large without closed discal cells; fore femora feebly swollen, armed beneath with a number of short distinct spines; fore tibiae setose beneath, apices obliquely truncate.