Poecilopharis

Described as Schizorhina buruensis, this insect from the eastern part of the Buru island is dark, shiny, olive green with a few residual yellow dots.

From the western part of the Buru island, the insect is metallic golden green, the orange marks almost totally absent.

From the Larat island, a species with no punctation and of metallic green colour with copper red brilliance.

Described as Schizorhina emilia, an insect from the Anatom island, in the New Hebrides, small with a shiny greenish black colour, covered with regular orange patterns.

Cohabiting with uniformis with the two external teeth of the tibia close together and some differences in the paramers.

The type specimen is in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Italy.

Green colour with gold and reddish reflections, weak orange maculation.

A large species with extended yellow marks on a dark mauve background.

A species from Halmaera which makes the transition to the Anacamptorrhina, the tip of the clypeus being strongly indented.

Shiny blue green colour and general appearance different from the other currently known Poecilopharis.

The type specimen is in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and was dedicated to the great entomologist Dr. G. Allan Samuelson.

From a place close to Bulolo, an insect usually small, with a very extensive orange maculation.

A subspecies (or a true species) from Lufa, East Highlands Province, small size, chocolate colour with confluent yellow maculation.

Described as Schizorhina truncatipennis, an insect from the Key island, with orange maculation in a black ground colour.

This is the insect from the south of the Solomon archipelago, almost a uniform dark green, the pronotum very little punctate.

Described as Schizorhina whitei, an insect from the Aru and Key islands, with a shiny blue green colour.

The insect from the small island south of Bougainville is dark green with very few orange markings.

The specimens from Bougainville are strongly marked with orange, those from the island of Buka even having bronze reflections.

The details of the paramers and of the first tibia have been published in the volume 25 of The Beetles of the World, together with a general distribution map.