4;Ì8 MARTIN .IvrOBY 



joint acutely j)oint('(l . antoniiao long and slender, black, the 

 lower four joints fulvous, second joint proportionately thick 

 and long, but slightly shorter than the third joint, fourth, longer 

 than tlH> preceding one. the following joints much more elon- 

 gate and slender, thorax subquadratc, scarcely one half broader 

 than long, the sides nearly straight, the angles not ])roduced , 

 the surflice with a very obsolete transverse sulcation before the 

 middle, entirely glabrous and impunctate. greenish-blue, opaque, 

 scutellum blackish , elytra of the same colour and sculpture 

 as that of the thorax , their epipleurae broad at the base , the 

 underside black, femora with a bluish tint, the posterior ones 

 very strongly incrassate, tibiae fulvous, the posterior ones dilated 

 towards the apex, not chanelled, with a distinct spine, anterior 

 tibiae unarmed , tarsi fulvous , the metatarsus of the posterior 

 legs as long as the following three joints together, claws 

 appendiculate, prosternum narrow, the anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



Hah. Pangherang-Pisang and Siboga. 



A. glahrata differs from the other two species contained in 

 this genus, in the absence of any pubescence of the thorax and 

 elytra, but agrees in the want of any visible punctuation and 

 other particulars wnth the typical forms; all are of delicate and 

 silky appearance as only found amongst the llaltkidne in the 

 bladder-clawed Monoplalhiae ; 1 know however only of tliree 

 species. 



GALERrCIN.\E 



10;). Aulacophora similis, (Hiv. — Several specimens of this 

 common and widely distributed species were obtained at Siboga, 

 Balighe, Pea Ragia and Pangherang-Pisang. The variety AaRìui- 

 phidopalpa) flavipe^, Jac. is also amongst them. In the l)eutsclu> 

 Entomolog. Zeitschrift for 189!2, Weise has changed the name 

 of Aulacopiiom and substituted several other genera, on account 

 of structural characters differing. 1 must regret Iioth these alte- 

 rations.' the name of Aiihicophoni has been used ever since I83^i 

 anil although a similar g(Mius (>\ists in Uotany. no great con- 



