C. L. BELLAMY National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. A REVIEW OF THE PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF THE COROEBUS GORY & LAPORTE GENUS-GROUP (COLEOPTERA, BUPRESTIDAE) Bellamy, C. L., 1991. A review of the Philippine species of the Coroebus Gory & Laporte genus-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). -Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 155-176, figs. 1-67. [ISSN 0040-7496]. Published 18 December 1991. The Philippine genera and species of the Coroebus generic group are reviewed. Five species of Coroebus are identified: coelestis Saunders, spinosus (Fabricius), hastanus Gory & Laporte, albiventris sp. n. and bivestitus sp. n. Five species of Cisseicoraebus are recognized: grandis (Kerremans) , pullatus (Saunders) comb. n.,piperi (Fisher) comb, n., cisseoides (Saunders) comb. n. and bicoloratus sp. n. Philocoroebus gen. nov., is described for azureipennis (Obenberger) comb, n., banahaoensis (Obenberger) comb, n., meliboei-formis (Saunders) comb, n., cyaneoviridis Fisher comb, n., and seven new species: ma-quilingensis sp. n., purpureus sp. n., samarensis sp. n., elongatus sp. n., alius sp. n., adamantinus sp. n. and pseudocisseis sp. n. The first Philippine species of Cisseis: aquilonia sp. n. and Hypocisseis: philippinensis sp. n., are described. The second Philip-pine species of Vanroonia: luzonica sp. n. is described. Keys are presented to separate the Philippine genera of the Coroebus group and the species of Coroebus, Cisseicoraebus and Philocoroebus. Correspondence: Dr. C. L. Bellamy, 1651 S. Juniper Street 215, Escondido CA 92025, U. S. A. Key words. -Philippines, Buprestidae, Coroebus, taxonomy. The eventual understanding of the genera and relationships within the large, virtually cosmopol-itan tribe Coroebini is dependent upon the correct definition and species placement within or outside the type-genus Coroebus Gory & Laporte. The co-roebine element of the Philippine Islands is partic-ularly exciting due to its position biogeographically as the transition zone between the disparate faunas of southeast Asian, Malesian and Australasian re-gions. Some of the taxa described herein were separ-ated and apparently recognized as new by W. S. Fisher (Department of Entomology, tjsnm), but he never found the opportunity to realize his apparent intentions following the three main contributions to the Philippine buprestid fauna (Fisher 1921, 1922, 1926). Label data are presented verbatim with commas inserted to separate data from individual lines and the "/" used to separate data from individual labels. Parenthetical information is added for clarity. The following acronyms are used to indicate the various collections which house and/or loaned material for this study: BMNH, The Natural History Museum, London, England; bpbm, B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.; NMPC, Na-tional Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia; NSMT, National Science Museum, Tokyo; usnm, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. and VCLP, Visayas State College of Agriculture, Leyte, Philippines. A few morphometric abbreviations are used in the text as follows: L/W = total length versus width ratio, taken from greatest anterior extension of head to elytral apex; PN W/L = pronotal width versus length ratio; and PS L/W = prosternai length versus width ratio, both using maximum widths and lengths. I was unable to make contact with or secure the loan of material from most of the Philippine col-lections and imagine that there is probably addi-tional material awaiting study and description in the future. It will eventually make sense and be necessary to comment on the phylogenetic relationships of the Philippine Coroebini. However, as there remain numerous undescribed coroebine taxa in the USNM 155
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