AND SPECIES OF GALERUCIN^. 



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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, postice 

 paullo arapliata, 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 hn. 



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. 



Fem. Antennis siraplicibus ; abdominis segmento anali apice obtuso. 

 Var. A, 2 ' Capite toto flavo, thorace utrinque ante medium 



plaga magna nigra instructo ; elytrorum plaga infra medium ob- 



soleta. 



Hah. Elores ; Sarawak (Wallace) . Var. A, Java. 



Clypeus in the (S with a narrow, rather strongly raised longi- 

 tudinal ridge ; front just above the encarjDae 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 

 large, prominent. Antennje 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. 



