NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 61 
Length 2-2 '/, lines. 
Head impunctate, transversely grooved between the eyes, the 
latter of moderate size; frontal tubercles transverse, .carina 
short and thick; antennae scarcely half the length of the body, 
the joints rather short, the third one half longer than the se- 
cond, the three or four or sometimes the six last joints black ; 
thorax one half broader than long, the sides and the posterior 
margin rounded, the angles not produced, surface rather convex, 
without depression, impunctate; elytra scarcely broader at the 
base than the thorax, very finely and closely punctured, the 
punctuation arranged in close irregular rows; legs rather short 
and stout, the tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the posterior 
tarsi as long as the two following together; claws appendiculate; 
anterior coxal cavities incomplete. 
Hab. New Guinea, Sorong (L. M. D’Albertis). Java, Buiten- 
zorg (G. B. Ferrari). 
As the structural characters peculiar to Cneorane, and pointed 
out above are present in the insect before me, I have placed it 
in this genus; the shape of the thorax agrees also with that 
of the allied species. 
32. Cneorane’? semipurpurea, n. sp. 
Narrowly elongate; black below; anterior femora and part 
of the mouth testaceous; antennae closely pubescent; above 
obscure dark purplish, thorax strongly and subremotely punctu- 
red; elytra closely punctured and subrugose. 
Var. legs entirely black. 
Length 2 lines. 
Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles trigonate and distinctly 
raised; upper part of the vertex purplish black, lower part of 
face more or less testaceous; the anterior edge of the clypeus 
shaped in form of a semicircular ridge; palpi piceous, modera- 
tely thickened, the apical joint rather stout and conical; antennae 
as long as the body, black, thickly pubescent, the second and 
third joints short and nearly equal, the fourth as long as the 
