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has (according to Mr. Baly) inte7' alia the apical ventral segment 

 quite different in both sexes, — and the other Malayan species (I 

 think I have seen at least descriptions of them all) all differ in 

 well marked characters. A species from Cape York which Mr. 

 Jacoby thinks may be A. affiiiis, Montrouz., has inter alia the 

 hind legs entirely black. 



N. S. Wales ; Richmond River district ; sent by Mr. T. G. 

 Sloane. 



AULACOPHORA WiLSONI, Baly. 



Mr. Sloane has sent me from the Richmond River district a 

 single specimen (female) which seems to be this insect, — described 

 on specimens from Melbourne. My example does not quite tit the 

 description in respect of colour, being brownish-testaceous rather 

 than flavous and having the disc of the elytra vaguely infuscate, 

 but I can find no other distinction. It appears to me that A. 

 scutellata, Boisd., might be this insect, but the description (of half 

 a dozen woi'ds) is perhaps unworthy of attention. 



HoPLOSTiNES, gen. no v. 



Corpus oblongam, robustum, glabrum ; oculi integri sat 



convexi ; antennae robustse filiformes, corporis dimidio vix 



'ongitudine aequales, articulo 1° 4° eequali quam 3"^ breviori ; 



prothorax transversus ; elytrorum epipleurse fere ad apicem 



bene distinctae ; tibiae extus longitudinaliter sulcatae, apice 



mucronatje, anticarum mucrone brevi valido uncinate ; 



tarsorum posticorum articulus 1"^ 2° 3° que conjunctis vix 



fequalis ; unguiculi bifidi ; acetabula antica postice angus- 



tissime clausa. 



The insect for which I propose this new generic name cannot 



be placed in any of the numerous genera of Galerucidce formed by 



Messrs. Baly, Jacoby, and others since Dr. Chapuis' work on the 



subfamily in the " Genera des Coleopteres." In Dr. Chapuis' 



tabulation of the genera of Galerucides it would fall in the 



Sermylites. 



HOPLOSTINES VIRIDIPENNIS, sp.nOV. 



Testacea, antennis labro mandibulis palpis abdominis 

 parte media tibiarura apice tarsisque infuscatis, elytris Isete 



