SCHIZORRHINA TRUNCATIPENNIS. 3 



Legs and uuder surface of the tliorax as in Whitei] the 

 ventral segments of the abdomen less sculptured, showing 

 only a few scratches towards the sides. 



The male here described has been sent over from the 

 Aru Islands by Baron C. B. H. von Rosenberg, together 

 with a variety (9) of Schizorrhina Whitei Thoms. which 

 has a dark steel blue color with shades of green and 

 purple, 



Leyden Museum, October 1880. 



P.S. The description of my Schizorrhina truncatipennis was 

 already printed when I received Dr. Kraatz's Geneva Cetonida- 

 rum Australiae^) containing a revision of the Australian Schi- 

 zorrhinidae in which the genus Poecilopharis is established 

 in behalf of Schizorrhina buruensis Wall, (considered as the 

 type of the new genus) and its allies. In the enumeration 

 of the species of this genus (three in number) Dr. Kraatz 

 regards Whitei Thoms. {= Emiliae Thoms.) as a variety of 

 Bu7'uensis Wall, and places Emilia White between this and 

 Aruana Wall. 



I am however of a somewhat different opinion and regard 

 Aruana Wall, and Buruensis Wall, as varieties of Whitei 

 Thoms. Thus we come to the following synopsis of the 

 genus Poecilopharis Kraatz: 



I. Anterior margin of the clypeus nearly straight , scarce- 

 ly emarginated ; mesosternal process slightly curved. 

 A. Elytra with the posterior lateral angles rounded 

 and the suture inconspicuously spined. 

 spec. 1. Whitei Thoms. (= Emiliae Thoms.). Aru. 



var. Aruana Wall Aru. 



var. Buruensis Wall Buru. 



var. laevipetinis Rits., with almost 

 entirely smooth elytra, showing 

 only some faint traces of rows of 

 extremely small punctures . Buru 



1) Deutsche Entomologlsche Zeltschrift. Bd. XXIV C1880). S. 177. 

 £>^otes from the Leyden Museuni, "Vol. HI. 



