AND SPECIES OF GALEltUOINiE. 
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twice as broad as long; sides nearly straight and slightly di- 
verging from the base to beyond the middle, thence rounded and 
converging towards the apex ; disk impressed just behind the 
middle with a transverse sulcation ; surface finely and remotely 
punctured, the punctures more crowded on the sides in front. 
Elytra convex, faintly excavated on the suture below the basilar 
space, finely punctured. 
11. Aulacophora bipartita. Anguste oblongo-ovata, postiee 
paullo ampliata, convexa, flava, subnitida, vertice, oculis, thoracis 
dimidio antico, metapectore abdomineque nigris ; thorace transversim 
sulcato, sulco medio minus fortiter impresso, disco interdum ante 
basin maculis parvis male definitis nigro-piceis, instructo ; elytris 
oblongis, postice paullo ampliatis, subcrebre punctatis, obsolete longi- 
tudinaliter sulcatis ; utrisque plagis duabus magnis, una basali, unaque 
vix pone medium, nigris. Long. 3 lin. 
Mas. Capitis vertice utrinque creta oblique posita instructo ; an- 
tennarum articulis tertio, quarto quintoque compressis, triangulariter 
dilatatis ; abdominis segmento anali trilobato, lobo intermedio con- 
cavo. 
Fern. Antennis simplicibus ; abdominis segmento anali apice obtuso. 
Var, A, $ . Capite toto flavo, thorace utrinque ante medium 
plaga magna nigra instructo ; elytrorum plaga infra medium ob- 
soleta. 
Hah. Elores ; Sarawak (Wallace) . Yar. A, Java. 
Clypeus in the <S with a narrow, rather strongly raised longi- 
tudinal ridge ; front just above the encarpse with a deeply im- 
pressed fovea ; obliquely placed on each side just within the 
eye is a broad slightly raised elongated ridge ; eyes in the c? 
large, prominent. Antennae with the third and following two 
joints compressed, triangularly dilated, the third less broadly so 
than the two others; third and fourth equal in length, the 
fifth rather shorter. Thorax transverse ; sides slightly diverging 
and sinuate from the base to beyond the middle, thence ob- 
liquely rounded and converging to the apex ; upper surface 
minutely punctured, impressed immediately behind the middle 
with a deep transverse groove. Elytra oblong, slightly dilated 
towards the apex ; convex, distinctly and rather closely punc- 
tured ; disk of each elytron with five or six faint longitudinal 
sulcations. 
