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NOTES ON GALERUCINM, AND DESCRIPTIONS OP TWO NEW 

 SPECIES OF HISPIDM. 



BY J. S. BALT, r.L.S. 



Genus AULACOPHORA. 



AulacopJiora dilatata, Jacoby : — New genera and species of Phy- 

 tophagous Coleoptera in the Genoa Civic Museum, 1886, p. 51. 

 This insect is a pale variety of A. hiteicornis, Fabr. 



Aulacoj)hora semiopaca, Jacoby, I. c, p. 51. 



One of the numerous varieties of A. hicolor, Weber. 



Since the publication of my paper on Aulacophora in the Linnean 

 Proceedings, I have seen a series of this species, in which there is a 

 distinct transverse depression below the basilar space ; it is probably 

 the most variable insect in the genus. 



Genus MALAXIA. 



Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 5*^ ser., viii, p. 139. 



The above genus, formed by M. Fairmaire on a species from 

 Central China, has since been re-characterized by Mr. Jacoby in 

 Notes Leyd. Mus., vi, 1884, p. 62, under the name of GlytoJiis. M. 

 Fairmaire, in his diagnosis, has given the claws as bifid, with the inner 

 tooth short. Mr. Jacoby (more correctly) has described them as 

 appendiculate. 



1. Malaxia flavovirens, Fair., I. c, p. 139, China. I possess several specimens of 



tliis species from various parts of China ; in some the thorax and legs are 

 stained to a greater or less extent with fuscous or black ; one of these specimens 

 M. Fairmaire has kindly compared with his type. 



2. Malaxia viridis :=^Glytolus viridis, Jacoby, /. c, p. 62. Sumatra. 



Genus SERMTLOIDES. 



Jacoby, Notes Leyd. Mus., vi, 1884, p. 64, = PrtsocZ/raZm, Duvivier, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., xlv, 1885, p. 245. 



The present genus, as seen above, has been twice characterized, 

 in the first place by Mr. Jacoby, secondly by M. Duvivier ; both 

 authors having taken the same insect for their type, there can, however, 

 be no doubt but that this species had been previously described by 

 Fabricius, under the name of pallicornis -. the synonymy stands thus : — 



