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head and thorax; basal joint incrassate, second short, ovate, third 

 and fourth nearly equal, each about one-third longer than the 

 second, the first of them cylindrical, tlie other compressed, ob- 

 conic, the remaining joints compressed and triangularly dilated, 

 black, the four lower joints being obscure fulvous ; eyes large, 

 slightly convex, their inner border slightly notciied. Thorax about 

 twice as broad as long at the base ; sides with a narrow reflexed 

 border, rounded, obliquely converging in front, posterior angles 

 rounded, nearly obsolete; basal margin slightly sinuate on either 

 side near the medial lobe, the latter moderately produced, its 

 apex broad, very obtusely rounded ; upper surface shining, im- 

 punctate. Scutellum trigonate, thickened towards its apex, the 

 extremity of which is truncate ; surface smooth, frequently im- 

 pressed with fine but distinct punctures, clothed at the base with 

 fine adpressed silky hairs. Elytra strongly lobed at the base, 

 their upper surface coarsely punctured, the puncturing becoming 

 finer and rather more distant towards the apex ; on the outer 

 disc, a short distance from the margin, is a slightly raised longi- 

 tudinal vitta. Anal segment of abdomen with a large deep 

 fovea. 



In var. A the basal band on the elytra is divided into three 

 large patches, one surrounding the scutellum, and one on either 

 side, on the shoulder, deeply bifurcate. 



Genus Gynandroththalma, Lac. ' 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 256. 

 1. Gynandrophthalma Malatjana, n. sp. (PI. II. fig. 4.) 



Oblonga, convexa, fulva, nitida ; capite, scutelli apice, elytrisque 

 caeruleo-nigris ; his distincte punctatis, utrisque fascia lata 

 sinuata communi extrorsum abbreviate vix ante medium 

 posita, maculaque ante apicem, fulvis ; femoribus, thoracis 

 punctis duobus pectoreque piceis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Var. A. Elytris fulvis, caeruleo-nigro vario modo maculatis. 



Var. B. Elytris totis obscuris cseruleis. 



Var. C. Elytris fere totis fulvis. 



Hab. Batchian, Ke, Ternate, Ceram. 



Head finely rugose between the eyes, front and epistome nearly 

 smooth, the latter triangular, obsoletely depressed ; labrum ob- 

 scure fulvous ; antennae shorter than the head and thorax, the 

 latter three times as broad as long, transversely convex, its sur- 



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