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three following joints together; claws bifid; anterior coxal 
cavities open; elytral epipleurae, extremely narrow anteriorly, 
entirely disappearing below the shoulders. 
Hab. New Guinea, Andai, Ramoi (L. M. D’Albertis). 
This species differs somewhat from most of its allies in the 
large prominent eyes and the very narrow elytral epipleurae, 
but as all other structural characters peculiar to the genus are 
present I thought it best not to separate it from the latter. 
22. Aulacophora insularis, n. sp. 
Testaceous or fulvous; antennae in both sexes simple, the 
terminal joints fuscous; elytra black, a narrow transverse band 
at the middle and the extreme apices, fulvous; abdomen some- 
times fuscous. 
Length 3 lines. 
Hab. New Guinea, Island of Yule, May, June (L. M. D’AL 
bertis). 
I am obliged to separate again this species, of which I have 
15 specimens for comparison, from A. dorsalis, affinis and frau- 
dulenta, on account of the testaceous not black labrum the 
similarly coloured pygidium and the simple not dilated antennae; 
the legs are fulvous and the apices of the tibiae as well as the 
tarsi generally dusky; the third joint of the antennae in the 
male is slightly longer than the fourth; the fulvous band of 
the elytra is scarcely or slightly widened at the suture and 
extends quite to the lateral margin; as all these differences are 
constant in the specimens from Yule Islands I must consider 
them to be closely allied but distinct from the preceding 
species. 
23. Aulacophora rubrozonata, Biancu. 
The description given by the author is so short, that it is 
impossible to say whether or not the specimens contained in 
this collection are referrable to this species or to A. bicincta 
