NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 89 
slightly longer than the third; thorax transverse, about twice 
as broad as long, the anterior margin concave, the sides straight 
at the base, rounded in front of the middle, the anterior angles 
obtusely rounded, the surface microscopically finely punctured, 
the sides with an obscure longitudinal sinuate groove or depres- 
sion ; the basal margin with a small notch at each side; scu- 
tellum fulvous, rather broad, trigonate; elytra convex slightly 
widened at the middle, black, the punctuation fine but distinct 
and arranged in double or treble lines at the disc, more irre- 
gularly at the sides; elytral epipleurae broad, extending to the 
apices; tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the posterior tarsi 
scarcely as long as the two following joints together; claws 
appendiculate; anterior coxal cavities closed; prosternum di- 
stinct. 
Hab. Celebes, Kandari (Beccari). A single specimen. 
69. Solenia Albertisi, n. sp. 
Below black; 3 basal joints of the antennae, head, thorax 
and legs fulvous; elytra dark metallic blue, scarcely visibly 
‘punctured. | 
Var. Below and the scutellum fulvous. 
Length 2-2 !/, lines. 
Head impunctate; frontal tubercles strongly developped trans- 
verse; antennae nearly half the length of the body, black, 
the 3 first jomts fulvous; third joint twice as long as the 
second, the latter not very short; thorax transverse more than 
twice as broad as long, the sides strongly rounded at the middle, 
the anterior angles produced into an obtuse tooth, surface 
rather convex, the basal margin with a short perpendicular 
groove at each side, the disc with some extremely fine punc- 
tures; scutellum broad, black; elytra convex, very dark me- 
tallic blue, the shoulders prominent, the surface either minutely 
punctate-striate or scarcely visibly punctured. 
Hab. New Guinea, Fly River, Island of Yule (L. M. D’AL 
bertis). Has (O. Beccari). 
