New species of the genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 from the Oriental Region. Supplement to "The genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel in the Oriental, Papuan, and Australian Regions" (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pentagonicini)

As a supplement to the revision of the genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 in the Oriental Region three new species are described: Pentagonica palawanica spec, nov. from the island of Palawan in the western part of the Philippines, P. nigroanten-nata spec. nov. from Sumatra and Malaysia, and P. rufonigra spec. nov. from Laos. P. palawanica is doubtfully assigned to P. pallipes (Nietner, 1856), the other species belong to the ruficollis group of Baehr (2012) and are more or less closely related to P. drcscheri Louwerens, 1952 from Thailand, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo and C. flavicornis Baehr, 2012 from Sulawesi. A second record of the rare species P. grimmi Baehr, 2012 is reported from Laos, and from P. sarawakensis Baehr, 2012 the male genitalia are firstly recorded and figured. The new species are inserted in the recent key to the Oriental-Papuan-Australian species of the genus Pentagonica (Baehr 2012).