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tibiae chanelled, unarmed; the first joint of the posterior tarsi 
not longer than the two following together; claws appendiculate; 
prosternum narrow but distinct; the anterior coxal cavities 
closed. 
Hab. Celebes, Kandari, March (O. Beccari). 
The name Euphyma Baly having already been used by 
M.” Baly for a genus of Cryptocephalidae (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877) 
I propose to alter it to Solenia; the genus was established on 
a species from India, having like the present insect short lon- 
gitudinal grooves at the base of the thorax; the general appea- 
rance is not unlike a Podagrica of the family Halticinae. All the 
characters peculiar to the genus and pointed out by M.” Baly 
are present in the species from Celebes of which numerous 
specimens were obtained; they may be separated from £. col- 
laris Baly by the closely punctured thorax and the colour of 
the antennae and tibiae. 
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66. Solenia laevicollis, n. sp. 
Broadly ovate, rufous; the 5 intermediate joints of the an- 
tennae, black; head and thorax impunctate; elytra metallic 
blue, closely semipunctate-striate. | 
Length 2 !/, lines. 
Head broad, impunctate; frontal tubercles transverse and 
broad; labrum and palpi fulvous; antennae half the length of 
the body, fulvous, joints 4-8 black, the third joint one half 
longer than the second; thorax more than twice as broad as 
long, the sides straight at the base, rounded in front, the an- 
terior margin concave, its angles bluntly toothed, surface enti- 
rely impunctate with a very short perpendicular groove at each 
side of the basal margin; scutellum fulvous; elytra convex, 
closely “and finely punctured, the punctuation arranged in semi- 
regular single, and at the sides, double rows; underside and 
legs entirely fulvous. 
Hab. Celebes, Kandari, March (O. Beccari). 
This species agrees with E. collaris in the impunctate thorax, 
