106 MARTIN JACOBY 
Length 2 lines. 
Head finely and closely punctured, sometimes with a slightly 
raised longitudinal central ridge; the frontal tubercles entirely 
obsolete, the space between the antennae slightly and bluntly 
raised; antennae moderately robust, the third joint one half 
longer than the second, the fourth as long as the two  prece- 
ding joints together; thorax about three times as broad as long, 
the sides strongly rounded and slightly widened towards the 
base, the anterior margin straight; the posterior angles obliquely 
rounded), the surface with a depression at each side, clothed 
with thin greyish pubescence, obscure testaceous, the sides with 
a rather large black spot; scutellum fuscous, large, the apex 
truncate ; elytra rather convex, very finely and closely punctu- 
red but the punctuation nearly obsolete on account of the 
pubescence ; legs and underside obscure testaceous. Anterior 
coxal cavities open. 
Hab. New Guinea, Sorong, Salwatti (L. M. D'Albertis). 
The thorax in this species shows no trace of punctuation and 
the general colour of the insect is an obscure greyish testaceous; 
the spot at the sides of the thorax in connection with the im- 
punctate surface of the latter and the small size will separate 
G. laterimaculata from any of its allies. 
9%. Galerucella multimaculata, n. sp. 
Elongate, pale greyish, pubescent; thorax transverse, depressed 
at the sides; elytra finely granulate and pubescent, marked 
with numerous small fuscous spots. 
Length 41/, lines. 
Head short, finely punctured, with a central thin lotta 
groove ; eyes very large; clypeus triangular, strongly raised, 
its anterior margin piceous; labrum pale fulvous; antennae 
slender, fuscous, the two lower joints testaceous, the 3 apical 
joints wanted; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the 
sides slightly sinuate below the middle, the angles obtusely 
rounded, surface closely punctured like the head, sparingly 
