Genus MENECTETORUS Faust, 1894

Menectetorus Faust, Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova, Ann. 34: 284, 1894.

Pseudapries Lea, Soc. ent. Belg., Mem. 16: 182, 1908. (New synonym.)

The genus Menectetorus was described for the reception of a single species from Burma, and until now has remained monotypic. A cotype of the genotype ( M. luctuosus) was included in some material sent to me for study from the National Museum by Mr. Buchanan. It is distinctly congeneric with typical species of Pseudapries, and that genus must fall as a synonym. Menectetorus luctuosus closely resembles the genotype of Pseudapries .

In Coleopterorum Catalogus (part 151, Cryptorrhynchinae, p. 70), Hustache has placed Pseudapries among the Colobodina in the Ithyporinae . The genus has nothing in common with the lthyporinae and should be placed next to Chaetectetorus in the Cryptorhynchina .

In 1909, Lea separated Pseudapries from Chaetectetorus on the comparative length of the metasternum and first abdominal segment, the metasternum being longer along the median line than the first ventrite in Pseudapries, shorter in Chaetectetorus . However, on the genotype of Chaetectetprus ( C. bifasciatus) the metasternum is fully as long or slightly longer than the first ventrite; a better character is: second ventrite much longer than 3 plus 4, almost as long as 3 plus 4 plus 5 = Chaetectetorus; and, second ventrite shorter than 3 plus 4 = Menectetorus . Following the use of this character, it becomes necessary to transfer the Fijian and Samoan Chaetectetorus to Menectetorus as follows: