572 ME. M. JACOBT ON THE [May 18, 



AuLAMOBPHCS, n. f^en. 



Body ovately subquadrate ; aiitennse subfilit'ortn, the terminal 

 joints thickened, the second and third joints short; thorax trans- 

 verse, with the anterior angles oblique, the disc with two traus- 

 verse sulci ; elytra irregularly punctured, their epipleurse broad 

 and continued below the middle ; legs robust, the tibise unarmed, 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following three 

 joints together ; claws appendicukte ; presternum very narrow 

 and rather convex ; the anterior coxal cavities closed. 



The species for which this genus is proposed has entirely the 

 appearance of those belonging to the genera Galerucida and Sphe- 

 noraia, inhabiting China and India, and can ouly be separated by 

 the unarmed tibise, no spines being visible, even under the micro- 

 scope. The place of the genus will be near Galeruca, from which 

 it differs in the transverse sulci of the thorax and in the unarmed 

 tibite. Two specimens were obtained by Mr. C. Hollis in Uzum- 

 bara, German East Africa, and kindly given to me by that 

 gentleman. 



AuLAMORPHUs HOLLisi, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 12.) 



Testaceous, the antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the 

 legs black; head with one, thorax with three black spots, strongly 

 punctured ; elytra closely and strongly punctured, a narrow longi- 

 tudinal stripe at the disc and two spots before and below the 

 middle at the sides, together with the apical margins, black. 



Length 2^ lines. 



Head with a few fine punctures and a short central groove, 

 testaceous, the vertex with a black spot, frontal tubercles trans- 

 verse, broad ; clypeus with a central groove, black ; palpi mode- 

 rately thickened ; antennae extending to about the middle of the 

 elytra, black, the lower three joints testaceous below, the second 

 joint short, the third shghtly longer, fourth joint the longest, the 

 following rather thickened and shorter ; thorax nearly three times 

 broader than long, the sides straight, the anterior angles oblique, 

 the posterior margin strongly obliquely shaped at the sides, the 

 disc with an obsolete transverse depression before the middle, 

 and a deeper sulcus at each side, not extending to the middle or 

 the lateral margin, the surface deeply and irregularly punctured, 

 testaceous, with a larger central and a smaller spot at each side ; 

 scutellum broad, black ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 

 slightly depressed below the former, very strongly and closely 

 punctured, testaceous, the suture posteriorly and the apical margins 

 nurrowly blax;k, a narrow similarly coloured stripe extends from 

 the middle of the base to below the middle of each elytron, to this 

 is joined a rounded spot below the shoulder and another at the 

 apex of the stripe at the sides : underside testaceous ; legs black ; 

 the abdominal segments also marked with a piceous spot at the 

 sides. 



Hab, Uzambara, East Africa (C Hollis). 



