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but differs in its smaller size and the colour of the antennae 
and legs. 
67. Solenia aruensis, n. sp. 
Ovate; piceous or black below; the lower joints of the 
antennae, head, thorax and legs fulvous; thorax transverse , 
impunctate ; elytra’ violaceous blue, distinctly but not very 
closely punctured. 
Length 1-1 1/, line. 
Head impunctate; the frontal tubercles transverse , strongly 
raised; antennae two thirds the length of the body, the four 
basal joints fulvous, the others black, the third joint one half 
longer than the second; thorax more than twice as broad as 
long, the sides rather strongly constricted near the base, much 
rounded before the middle, the surface with a few very minute 
punctures or impunctate, the basal margin with a short longi- 
tudinal groove at each side; scutellum black; elytra rather 
remotely and distinctly punctured, the punctuation arranged in 
semiregular rows; the shoulders bounded within by a rather 
deep depression. 
Hab. New Guinea, Aru Island, Wokan (Beccari). 
Distinguished from £. celebensis by the nearly impunctate 
thorax and smaller size, and from £. A/bertist by the distinctly 
punctured elytra and half its size. . 
68. Solenia Chapuisi, n. sp. 
Oblong-ovate, fulvous; intermediate joints of the antennae 
black; head and thorax nearly impunctate; elytra black, closely 
semipunctate-striate. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles transverse; clypeus 
broad, triangular; palpi claviform the terminal joint small and 
conical; antennae two thirds the length of the body, the three 
basal and the three apical joints fulvous, the others black, the 
third joint one half longer than the second, the following joints 
