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the last abdominal segment in the male has a short incision at each side and its 

 surface is slightly concave. 



Tebalia (?) varicolor sp. nov* 



Elongate, testaceous, antennae slender, thorax transverse, finely punctured, 

 elytra fuscous or black, closely and distinctly punctured; posterior femora jjartly 

 black. 



Var. Entirely pale testaceous. 



Length H to 2A lines. 



Head impunctate, the eyes accompanied by a groo\e near the inner margin, 

 frontal tubercles trigonate, short and broad, antennae extending to two-thirds the 

 length of the elytra, flavous or pieeous, the fourth joint slightly longer than the third 

 one, both joints elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, parallel, slightly narrowed 

 at the middle, the sides rounded, the surface very sparingly and finely punctured ; 

 scutellum broad; elytra without basal dei)ression, very closely and rather strongly 

 punctured, their epipleurae broad and continued to the apex ; iiosterior femora 

 strongly incrassate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi longer than the following 

 joints together ; prosternum rather broad ; anterior cavities closed. 



Hab. Amboina, Halmaheira, Batchian. 



I refer this species to Fairmaire's genus which the author founded on a species 

 from China; the present insect agrees in structural characters with the description 

 of the author, although the latter has omitted to state the length of the metatarsus 

 of the posterior legs ; T. varicolor seems very variable in colour in regard to the 

 elytra and legs, which are either black or testaceous, as well as the antennae. 



Metellus laevipennis Jac 



Of this sjiecies described by me in the Annals of the Genoa Museum, 1886, 

 there are now both sexes before me, which ha\e been obtained at Deli, North- West 

 Sumatra. The male agrees with the type, but has the basal three joints of the 

 antennae flavous and the excavation of the third dilated joint, black within ; the 

 fetaale has simple antennae; the elytra are scarcely perceptibly punctured at 

 the middle only in these specimens, so that the name laevipennis scarcely applies 

 to them. 



Syoplia javanensis Jac. 

 A single specimen of this species has been obtained at Timor by Mr. Doherty ; it 

 only differs from the type in having pieeous antennae. The anterior coxal cavities 

 have been described by me as being open ; this is a mistake, the re\erse is the case, 

 the}' are closed. Syoplia is one of the rare instances amongst the Galerucinae having 

 punctate-striate elytra. 



Macrog'onus gen. r.ov. 

 iSubquadrate, ovate, very convex, palpi not tliickened, the terminal joints olilong, 

 truncate at its apex, antennae widely separated, filiform, rather robust, eyes longer 

 than broad, tliorax transverse, deeply bifoveolate, the sides produced into an acute 



* Tliis species belonjjs to tlie Ifulticinac, ami slioiiM be placeil at the end of th.it grouii. It li.is 

 erroneously been placed here. 



