562 Mr. A. K. Wallace's Catalogue 



4, ScHizoEHiNA Whitei, Thomson. 



Schizorhina Wlvitei, Thorns. Mus. Scient. p. 36. 



;S. emilice ?, Thorns. Arch. Ent. i. p. 429, pi. 16, f. 5. 

 [nee S. emilia, White) . 



jlab.—Ke Islands, Matabello Islands (Coll. Wall.) . 



The specimens from the Matabello islands (which lie 

 between Ke and Coram) form a distinct variety of a deep 

 brassy-blue colour, with the tibiae and the under surface 

 generally brassy-black. They agree, however, in all 

 essential characters, and especially in the deeply im- 

 pressed line parallel to the suture and scutellum, and the 

 scarcely emarginate clypeus, which distinguishes this 

 species from 8. emilia. There appear to be no sexual 

 differences in this form. 



5, Schizorhina aruana, n. s. 



S. Whitei similis sed minor, elongata, pm'pureo-cuprea, 

 luteo-maculata, elytris lineis punctorum sex ornatis. 



Very near S. Whitei, but smaller and more elongate, 

 entirely of a bronze colour, with irregular yellowish 

 markings disposed as in S. Whitei : the elytra have six 

 lines of somewhat irregular punctures, whereas there are 

 only four, or rarely five, in the former species. 



Length 9 lines. 



Hah.— Aru Islands (Coll. Wall.) . 



6. Schizorhina bouruensis, n. s. 



8. Whitei similis, sed colore viridi obscuriore, thorace 

 immaculate, et elytris linea suturali interrupta. 



Size and form of 8. Whitei, but of a darker green colour ; 

 thorax immaculate, the yellow margin either quite absent 

 or only occupying a small space on each side ; elytra 

 with a few markings on the margin or none, the sutural 

 line always interrvipted below the scutellum ; tibi^ 

 blackish-green, tarsi black. 



Length 10-111 lines. 



Hah.— Bonrn (Coll. Wall.). 



Though the diiferences between this and 8. Whitei are 

 small, yet the immaculate thorax, interrupted sutural 

 line, and black tarsi, appear constant in a vei'y large 

 number of specimens, and seem to warrant their separa- 

 tion. Varieties occur of a bronzy-black, with purple 

 metallic refieetions. 



