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Show 1899.] ON THE PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 339 X. GALTON.-" The Muscles of the Fore aud Hind Limbs in Dasypus sexcinctus," Trans. Linn. Soc. xxAi. p. 523. XI. MECKEL.-Manuel d'Anatomie Comparee, vol. Ai. XII. HYRTL.-Denkschr. d. k.-k. Akad. d. Wissensch. in AVien, Bd. ix. XIII. MACKINTOSH.-" On the Muscular Anatomy of Cholcepus didactylus," Proc. B. Irish Academy, ser. ii. vol. ii. ]>. 66. XIV. MACALISTER.-" On the Myology of Bradypus tridac-tylus" Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. i. 1869, p. 51. XV. OWEN.-Trans. Zool. Soc. 1854. XVI. MACKINTOSH.-" On the Myology of tbe Genus Bradypus" Broc. B. Irish Academy, new ser. vol. i. p. 517. XVII. CUVIER et LAURILLARD.-' Planches de Mvologie.' 4. Additions to the Knowledge of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa.-Part II.1 By M A R T I N JACOBY, F.E.S. [Received February 3, 1899.] (Plate XXI.) This paper forms the second part of that read before the Society last year. It deals with the species of the subfamilies Halticince and Galerucince of different parts of Africa, so far as I have been able to determine them at present. Most of the material was received from Mr. Guy Marshall, the indefatigable collector in Mashonaland, to whose labour we are indebted for so many novelties. In a future Supplement I hope to deal AAith the rest of the species received since. HALTICIN.E. PHYGASIA SULPHURIPENNIS, sp. n. Entirely pale flavous, the antennas robust, the thorax impunctate, Avith deep transverse sulcus ; elytra extremely minutely and closely punctured. Length 5 millim. Head impunctate, frontal elevations and the clypeus broad, palpi robust; antennas not extending to the middle of theelytra, flavous, the joints robust, the third and following ones of nearly equal length, the second, small and round ; thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides rounded at the middle, the anterior angles blunt, the posterior ones distinct, the surface not perceptibly punctured, the basal sulcus deep, bounded at the sides by a perpendicular groove; elytra microscopically punctured, convex, their epipleuras very broad and concave ; metatarsus of the posterior 1 For Part I. see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 212. |