266 Phytophaga Malay ana. 



as long; sides subparallel, slightly rounded, obsoletely emarginate 

 in the middle, anterior angles produced, acute ; surface distinctly 

 punctured on the disk, more coarsely and closely punctured on 

 the sides. Scutellum broadly semiovate. Klytra broader than 

 the thorax, nearly parallel, slightly narrowed towards the apex, 

 subcylindrical, more strongly punctured than the thorax, inter- 

 spaces over the surface (the lower half of the inner disk excepted) 

 covered with coarse strongly-raised irregularly-reticulating trans- 

 verse strigae ; on the inner disk near its apex are several longi- 

 tudinal costae. 



Genus Geloptera, Baly. 

 Journ. of Entom. i. p. 283. 

 Corpus oblongum, convexum. Caput perpendiculare, thorace 

 ad marginem posteriorem oculorum immersum ; antennis 

 graeilibus, filiformibus aut subtiliformibus, articulo {)rimo 

 incrassato, secundo brevi, tertio ilio fere duplo longtoie, 

 quarto adhuc paullo longiore ; mandibulis apice bifidis ; 

 wento transverso, apice concavo ; oailis subprominulis, sub- 

 reniformibus. Thorax transversus, marginatus. Scutellum 

 transversum, subpentagonum. Elytra parallela, apice ro- 

 tundata, dorso ssepe tuberculata. Pedes modice robusti, 

 simplices; imguiculis a])^ev\A\c\\\vii\s. Prusternum latitudine 

 longius, lateribus concavis. in medio non aut vix dentatis ; 

 eplsterno antico subtrigonato, lateribus concavis, apice late 

 truncato aut obtuso, angulo exteriori ad angulum anticum 

 thoracis extenso ; sulcis inter prosternum et episterna obso- 

 letis. Mesosternum transversum, apice obsolete angulato. 



1. Geloptera eximla, n. sp. 



Elongata, valde convexa, dorso subcylindrica, aeneo-viridis, 

 nitida, antennis piceo-fulvis, extrorsum nigris ; thorace sub- 

 crebre punctato ; elytris tenuiter aciculato-punctatis, punctis 

 in striis bifariis confuse dispositis, interspatiis irregulariter 

 impresso-strigosis, infra humeros irregulariter elevato-stri- 

 gosis, utrisque disco exteriori seriebus nonnullis longitu- 

 dinalibus fuberculorum, apicem versus obsoletis ; pedibus 

 fusco-aeneis, tarsis nigris. 



Var. A. Corpora toto fusco-aeneo. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Head broad^ closely punctured, sparingly clothed with very 



