Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Pliyiopliagous Coleoptera from tlio 

 Indo-Malayan and Anstro-Malayan subregions, coniained in tlic Genoa Civic 

 Museum, by MAllTIN JACOBY. 



Second Part 



EUMOLPIDAE (continued). 

 1. Oolasi>oicles simiilieipoiiiiis, n. sp. 



Below piceous; abdomen greenisli; five lower joints of the 

 antennae and the legs fulvous; above metallic green; thorax 

 finely and remotely punctured ; elytra strongly semipunctate- 

 striate. 



Var. disk of the elytra reddish cupreous. 



Lengtii 2 lines. 



Head with a central more or less distinct longitudinal groove, 

 very finely and rather distantly punctured , the vertex at either 

 side longitudinally strigose ; episteme wedgeshaped , separated at 

 the sides by a thin groove, its surface rather strongly subru- 

 gose punctate, its anterior margin nearly straight; labrum and 

 palpi fulvous ; thorax rather long not more than twice as broad 

 as long, slightly narrowed in front, the sides little and gra- 

 dually rounded from base to apex, surface rather finely and 

 distantly punctured, the space in front of the margins nearly 

 impunctate. Elytra convex without any basal depression, much 

 more strongly punctured than the thorax , the punctures rather 

 distantly placed and arranged in indistinct double rows ante- 

 riorly but singly towards the apex , near the sides the punctua- 

 tion is nuich coarser and the interstices are slightly transversely 

 wrinkled seen only when tlie insect is held in certain positions. 

 Underside with a slight metallic greenish or cupreous gloss. Fe- 

 mora and tarsi fulvous, the former unarmed. 



