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(leej), not pxtending to the lateral margin, the surface with a few punotnres near the 

 anterior angles, rest of the disc impunctate ; scutelluin fulvous ; elytra closely punc- 

 tured, the basal hand occupies about one-third of their length, and extends to the 

 lateral margin, the posterior sjwt is oblong, rather large, and does not touch either 

 margin. 



Hah. Humboldt Bay (New Guinea). 



Closely allied to A. anal is Weber. .1. ivilsoni Baly, and .1. approximaUi Baly. 

 but much smaller than either of these species, and differing in the entirely flavous or 

 fulvous colour of the underside and legs, and in the ])lane, not sulcate, intermediate 

 lobe of the last alxlominal segment in the male; from A. auslrocahdonica, Montr. 

 the present s])ecies differs in the entirely flavous head and underside, also in the male 

 sexual character. 



Aulacophora australis Blackburn. 

 Mr. Blackburn, in tlie F. Linn. Sue. S. S. Wales, 1891, considers this species 

 to ])e but a variation of A. analis Weber, which cannot be the ca.se, since the antennae 

 in that species are simple in both sexes, the same organs having dilated joints in 

 A. australis. 



Aulacophora papuana sp. no\. 



Flavous, antennae (the basal joints excepted), the labrum, the ai)ex of tibiae and 

 the tarsi black, thorax and scutelliim flavous, elytra black, finely ijunctured. abdomen 

 and pygidium partly or entirely black. 



(J. Last abdominal segment trilobate, the intermediate lobe not longer than 

 broad, its surface flat with a slight transverse groove. 



Length 2 to 2^ lines. 



Head impunctate, flavous, labrum black, antennae extending nearly to the end 

 of the elytra, black or fuscous, the basal three joints more or less stained with flavous, 

 third and fourth joints equal ; thorax twice as broad as long, the ti-ansverse sulcus 

 straight, extending to the sides, the latter sliglitly angulate before the middle, surface 

 with a few fine punctures anteriorly only ; scutellum flavous; elytra not depressed 

 below the base, shining, black, finely and somewhat regularlv punctured in rows; 

 underside finely jiuhescent. 



Hah. .Andai (Xew Guinea). 



I am obliged to sejiarate tliis sjiecies from several others nearly similarly 

 coloured on account of the partly black tibiae and tarsi, abdomen and pygidium ; it 

 is much smaller than A . nigrivestris Boisd. with which it otherwise nearly agrees, and 

 differs from that sjiecies also in the black ])ygidium and labrum. 



Sastra metallescens sp. nov. 



obscure testaceous, tlie tibiae l)lack, antennae obscure fulvous, tliorax de])ressed .-it 

 the sides and middle, strongly punctured, subangulate at the sides, elytra finely and 

 closely punctured, finely pube.scent, with a metallic greenish gloss. 



Length 4 lines. 



Of robust, convex shape, the head impundate, frontal elevations feebly raised, 

 cly])pus plane, eyes large, paljii filiform, the terminal joint ovate, antennae very 

 slender, nearly as long as the body, fulvous, the third joint .slightly longer than the 

 fourth and the longest ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides widened and obtusely 



