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specimen in the Baukeian collection now in the British 

 Museum, informs me that the claws are appendiculated ; 

 it must therefore be removed to Hyperacantha, Chapuis. 



Sp. 101. Serena, Boh. 

 This species is not an Aulacophora, but must be placed 

 in Mimastea, or some nearly-allied genus. 



The following species, placed in Aulacophora by M. 

 Allard, have appendiculated claws, and the anterior pair 

 of tibiae unarmed ; they must therefore be removed to 

 the genus Hyperacantha : — 



Sp. 36. melanoptera, Thoms. 



,, 41. rubrocastanea, Allard. 



,, 63. unifasciata, Oliv. 



,, 78. granulata, Allard. 



,, 79. oculata, Karsch.* 



,, 92. Deusserii, Karsch. 



,, 96. hidentata, Fabr. 



,, 95. insignipennis, Thoms. 



,, 96. quadrifasciata, Allard.t 



„ 98. Jiavo-niger, Thoms. 



The four species below are here characterised for the 

 first time : — 



Aulacophora armigera. 



Anguste ovata, postice paullo ampliata, flava, nitida, pectore 

 abdomineque, ano piceo excepto, nigris ; pedibus posticis piceis, 

 intermediis piceo-fulvis ; antennis, basi exceptis, fuscis ; thorace 

 sat fortiter transversim sulcato ; elytris tenuissime punctatis. 



F(EM. — Pygidii apice dente acuto armato ; abdominis segmento 

 anali late truncate. Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. Murray Island, North Australia ; a single 

 specimen. 



Labrum and eyes black. Three lower joints of antennae flavous, 

 the following piceo-fuscous, the rest broken off. Thorax nearly 



* The female of this species has two additional black spots on 

 the thorax, one on either side; there are also two others on the 

 vertex ; these markings are constant in all the female specimens 

 that I have seen. 



f This species is evidently the male of unifasciata, Oliv., de- 

 scribed by Fairmaire in the French ' Annales' for 1866, p. 252, 



