{ 27 ) 



III. Descriptions of new genera and species o/Galerucidge. 

 By Joseph S. Baly, M.R.C.S., F.L.S. 



[Read February 3rcl, 1886.] 



Hojdosonui ventralis. 



Elongata, parallela, flava, nitida, pectore abdomineque nigris ; 

 thorace transverso, lateribus basi siibparallelis, antice pauUo am- 

 pliatis ; disco Isevi, transversim excavato, elytris tenuiter puuctatis. 



^ . Abdominis segmento secmido spinis duabus validis armato. 

 Long. 4 — 4i lin. 



Hah. Borneo, Sarawak [Wallace). 



Head prominent; anteunte slender, filiform; eyes black. Thorax 

 one-half as broad again as long ; sides parallel, slightly dilated an- 

 teriorly ; disk impimctate, transversely excavated, more deeply so 

 on either side. 



Hoplosoma ornata. 



Elongata, parallela, rufo-testacea, nitida, antennis, basi exceptis, 

 scutello, pectore pedibiisque nigris ; thorace transverso, disco 

 utrinque leviter transversim excavato ; tennissime pnnctatis, 

 fascia lata prope medium metallico-purpurea instructis ; disco 

 antico flavo. Long. 4 lin. 



Hah. Mysol {Wallace). 



Antenna filiform, equal to the body in length ; subapical joint of 

 the maxillary palpus not thicker than the apical one. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; sides nearly straight and parallel ; disk 

 shining, nearly impunctate, impressed on either side with a broad 

 shallow transverse excavation. Elytra parallel, very minutely 

 punctured ; flavous anteriorly, rufo-testaceous from just below the 

 middle disk to the apex, the two colom-s being separated by a 

 broad metallic purple band. 



The penultimate joint of the maxillary palpus is not 

 thickened in this species. 



Cneoraus rngulipenuis. 

 Oblongo-ovata, convexa, rufo-fiUva, nitida, antennis, basi ex- 

 exceptis, tibiis tarsisque anticis quatuor, pedibusque posticis nigris ; 

 TRANS. KNT. SOC. LOND. 188G. PART I. (mARCH). 



