512 M. JACOBY 



following joints, thorax more than twice as broad as long, the 

 sides evenly rounded, the anterior angles slightly produced 

 outwards, the basal margin with a short perpendicular notch at 

 each side, surface rather strongly transversely convex, pale ful- 

 vous, impunctate, scutellum fulvous, elytra elongate, narrowed 

 towards the apex, closely punctured in partly semiregular, 

 partly irregular rows, the punctuation finer near the apex, 

 the breast and legs fulvous, the abdomen (the apex excepted) 

 piceous. 



Hah. New Guinea (my collection). 



Of this species, I possess two specimens, one of them differs 

 in having the six lower joints of the antennae fulvous and the 

 fourth joint longer than the third, but as I can find no other 

 differences, these are probably due to sex; all the species of 

 Solenia known at present, seem very closely allied and are not 

 easy to distinguish, the principal character seems to be the ely- 

 tral sculpturing, shape of the thorax and general size and 

 shape. The present species is smaller than S. robusta Jac. and 

 differs from that and the other species of the genus in the ir- 

 regular or nearly so punctured elytra, piceous abdomen etc. 



53. Solenia intermedlia, sp. n. 



Flavous, antennule (the lower three joints excepted) black, 

 thorax minutely punctured, the anterior angles not produced, 

 elytra violaceous, very finely punctured in closely approached 

 rows. 



Length 4 ^2 niillim. 



Head impunctate, fiavous, eyes large, frontal elevations trans- 

 verse, deeply transversely grooved behind, palpi strongly incras- 

 sate, antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, 

 the lower three joints flavous, third and following joints equal, 

 thorax twice as broad as long, transversely convex, the lateral 

 margins rather strongly rounded at the middle, the anterior 

 angles thickened but not produced, the basal margin with a 

 perpendicular notch at the sides, the surface flavous, extremely 



