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tlio base , linely punctate-striate , the punctuation more obsolete 

 towards the apex , the interstices sliglitly costate at the sides : 

 a short more distinctly raised costa extends from the shoulder 

 downwards to a short distance; metatarsus of tlie posterior 

 legs, scarcely as long as the 2 following together; presternum 

 rather broad, anterior coxal cavities closed. 

 Sumatra, Sungei-Bulu, Septemb. (0. Beccari). 



G5. Crepidodera, Oestroi, n. sp. 



Oblong ; piceous below ; above and the posterior femora me- 

 tallic violaceous blue; anterior legs and base of the antennae, 

 fulvous; head and thorax impunctate; elytra punctate-striate. 



Length 1 ^4 line. 



Head more or less greenish blue, impunctate, the space bet- 

 ween the antennae very narrow and raised in shape of an acute 

 ridge; antennae slender, two thirds the length of tlie body, three 

 lower joints and the base of the fourth, fulvous, the rest fus- 

 cous, closely pubescent; third and fourth joints of equal length, 

 thorax twice as broad as long; rather convex, the sides but 

 very slightly rounded and oj^liquely cut in front of the anterior 

 angles, forming a distinct tooth before the middle; basilar groove 

 deeply impressed, slightly sinuate and bounded by an equally 

 deep longitudinal depression at the sides; entire surface impunc- 

 tate , violaceous blue; elytra broader than the thorax, without 

 any basal depression , rather finely and very regularly punctate- 

 striate, the interstices smooth and impunctate as well as the 

 extreme apex; shoulders prominent, bounded within by a lon- 

 gitudinal depression; legs more or less fulvo-piceous; presternum 

 rather broad; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D'Albertis). 



ijG. Cr-epidocleva dulbiosa, n. sp. 



Ovate, very convex; below piceous or black; basal joints of 

 the antennae, head and thorax dark fulvous, basilar groove of 



