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other blaek, undevside and the posterior legs black, the 

 anterior ones fulvous below. 



Hab. Java (Fruhstorfer). 



Nearly allied to S. Laportei Baly bat of dilTerent colo- 

 ration and the elytral punctuatiou deep and large instead of 

 fine as in that !^peeies. A Single Jrpecimen was obtained by 

 Herr Fruhstorfer, 



fialerucidae. 



Malaxia maculicollis sp. n. 



Black, linely pubescent, the basal joints of the antennae 

 more or less testaceous, thorax flavous with a black spot, 

 linely rugose, elytra bright green, very finely rngose; legs 

 flavous. 



Length 2— 2i|. lines. 



Head broad, rugose at the vertex, the latter black as 

 well as the labrum, clypeus flavous, antennae as long as the 

 body, black, the third Joint shorter than the fourth, the latter 

 and the intermediate joints very elongate, terminal joints 

 shorler, the basal two joints testaceous below, thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the sides narrowed at the base, anterior 

 angles entirely obsolete and rounded, the surface transversely 

 rugose and sculptured like the head, flavous with a rounded 

 black spot at the middle of tlie disc and another at the sides 

 below, scutellum black, elytra parallel and narrow, bright 

 metallic green, finely rugose and transversely wrinkled, the 

 extreme lateral margin purplish; underside black, legs flavous. 



Hab. New. Guinea. 



This is a rather smaller species and of more slender 

 shape Ihau most of its congeners, and priucipally distinguished 

 by the tlavous thorax, spotted with black on the disc and 

 at the flanks below. 



Anthipha (Dercetis Clark) quadrimaculata sp. n. 



Flavous, the head black, thorax very sparingly punctured, 

 elytra distinctly semipunctate-striate, a transverse band at the 

 base and a smaller rounded spot below the middle, black, 

 breast more or less fulvous, the sides black. 



Length 21/2 — '^ lines, 



Head impunctate, the vertex black, frontal tuber«-les 

 oblic|uely transverse, carina widened in front, labrum flavous, 

 the third Joint one half longer than the second in tlie male, 

 twice as long in the female and half tlie length of the fourth 



Stelt. e.ntomol. Zeit. 1895. 



