268 Phi/fophar/a Malayana. 



double longitudinal rows ; interspaces finely but subremotely 

 wrinkled ; on the outer disk below the humeral callus they form 

 coarse irregularly-raised reticulations ; extreme lateral margin, 

 together with that of the thorax, metallic-green. Body beneath 

 closely clothed with white sericeous hairs. 



Genus Aulacia, n. g. 

 Corpus ovatum, valde convexum, postice plerumque attenuatum. 

 Caput thorace profunde insertum ; antennis filiformibus. 

 Thorax transversus,' basi elytrorum latitudini sequalis, late- 

 ribus marginatis, rotundato-convergentibus. Ehjtra postice 

 attenuata, irregulariter punctato-striata. Pedes mediocres ; 

 femoribus paullo incrassatis, muticis ; tibiis intermediis in- 

 terdum extus ad apicem emarginatis ; vnguicidis appendi- 

 culatis. Epislerna antica sulco profundo a prosterno sepa- 

 rata, ang;ulo interno libero. 



AuJnc'ia bears the same relation to Colaspo'ides that Nodina does 

 to Nodostoma ; in structural characters it agrees with Colaspo'ides, 

 in habit and size with Nodina. 



1. Aulacia diversa, n. sp. 



Ovata, convexa, postice attenuata, subtus (cum capite et an- 

 tennis) pallide picea, nitida, su])ra nigro-picea ; thorace sparse 

 hie illic tenuiter puncato ; elytris subfortiter punctato-stri- 

 atis, striis bifariam dispositis, interspatiis ad latera costatis; 

 tibiis intermediis extus ad apicem emarginatis. 

 Long, 1| lin. 

 Hab. Singapore. 



Head flat, nearly impunctate; anterior border of the epistome 

 angularly notched ; jaws black ; antennae rather more than half 

 the length of the body, pale fulvous. Thorax at the base twice 

 as broad as long; sides rounded, very quickly converging from 

 base to apex ; surface very remotely and finely punctured. Ely- 

 tra somewhat strongly punctate-striate ; striae arranged in double 

 rows on the inner disk, single on the outer disk, the interspaces 

 between the single rows costate. 



2. Aulacia fulviceps, n. sp. 



Ovata, postice attenuata, nigro-picea, nitida, supra piceo-faenea ; 

 capite pedibusque piceo-fulvisj thorace subcrebre punctate ; 



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