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Show 1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 207 sutural one at the base, the sides, and a transverse narrow baud immediately behind the middle and connected with the lateral stripe, black; below and the legs fulvous. Hab. Salisbury, Mashoualand; on lily of the valley (G. 31ar-shall). C. balyi Har. almost entirely resembles the present species, but is smaller, the head is differently constructed, and the thorax has no black spots, the elytra also have a narrow black margin. Mr. Marshall has sent two exactly similar specimens of this handsome species. LEUCASTRA BIMACULATA, sp. n. Fulvous, pubescent; the antennae, breast, and the legs black ; thorax impunctate, with a central black mark; elytra strongly punctured, with a black round spot placed at the middle of each elytron; pubescence pale yellow. Length 10 millim. Elongate and parallel; the head broad, strongly but not closely punctured, fulvous, clothed with short pubescence; tbe clypeus transversely depressed, flavous ; the eyes deeply notched; the antennae black, the last seven joints triangularly widened; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, the surface with a narrow transverse groove, running parallel with the anterior and posterior margins, the surface impunctate, clothed with single long yellowish hairs, the middle of the disc with a A-shaped black mark; elytra with rather prominent shoulders, somewhat paler in colour than the thorax, depressed near the suture at the base, strongly but not very closely punctured at the anterior portion, more finely so posteriorly, the interstices clothed with long golden-yellow pubescence; legs similarly pubescent, black as well as the breast, the femora unarmed; abdomen pale fulvous. Hab. Malvern, Natal; Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. 31arshall). Mr. Marshall has sent two specimens of this species, which differs in the coloration and pattern of the elytra from any of those described by "Westwood and Stal. CLYTHRINJE. D A M I A CAPITATA, sp. n. (Plate X X . fig. 1.) Fulvous; the terminal joints of tbe antennae, the breast and abdomen black; head and thorax fulvous, the former with two black spots, the latter transverse, impunctate ; elytra strongly and semi-rugosely punctured, a transverse band at the base and an oblique broad spot below the middle black. Mas. Head broad, the lower portion entirely divided longitudinally as far as the eyes; the anterior legs elongate. Length 5 millim. Head very broad, fulvous, impunctate, with a triangular black spot in front of each eye, the lower portion longitudinally divided into two broad lamellae, the right portion of which is longer than |