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Show 1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 259 row7 of deep punctures on each side ; antennae long and slender, the lower three joints flavous below, black above, the following five and the last joint of the latter colour, the ninth and tenth pale flavous, basal joint long and curved, club-shaped, second slightly shorter than the third; thorax nearly quadrate, the sides very feebly rounded at the middle, the anterior angles thickened, the posterior margin rounded, the surface crowded with punctures of different sizes, fulvous ; scutellum small, trigonate; elytra widened towards the apex, of similar sculpture to the thorax, fulvous, the basal and lateral margins (the latter to below the middle), a short stripe at the middle of the base, followed by a longer stripe placed at the middle of the disc, curved and thickened at its apex, black, between these two stripes another indistinct black line is seen in some specimens as well as a minute black spot at the extreme apex of the elytra; below and the legs fulvous, the knees, base of the tibiae, and tbe tarsi more or less piceous; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following joints together ; elytral epipleurae very broad at the base, indistinct below the middle. Hab. Verulam, Natal (G. Marshall). A well-marked species and resembling much M. nigrolineata Motsch., from Japan, but of different sculpture, the head black, and the colour of the antennae and legs different. MONOCIDA INORNATA, sp. n. Below blackish, above flavous; antennae black, the lower three joints fulvous; thorax with a few extremely minute punctures; elytra more distinctly but finely and very closely punctured; posterior tibiae and tarsi black. Length 5 millim. Head fulvous, impunctate, the frontal tubercles strongly developed; clypeus in shape of a narrow transverse ridge ; antennae slender, black, the lower three joints fulvous or entirely of the first-named colour, third joint one half longer than the second, fourth twice the length of the third; thorax subquadrate, distinctly narrowed at the base, the sides rounded before the middle, the anterior angles slightly prominent, the surface with a few minute punctures ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, the shoulders prominent, the punctation very close and fine, the epipleurae continued below the middle; breast and abdomen blackish, the last abdominal segments more or less flavous ; femora fulvous; all the tibiae mucronate, the four posterior ones (the base excepted) and the tarsi black; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following two joints together; claws appendiculate, the anterior coxal cavities closed. Hab. Headlands, Mashonaland (67. Marshall). This, the second species of the genus, may possibly be a local form of 31. suturata Jac. (P. Z. S. 1899, p. 370), but the head is fulvous and the elytra have no sutural nor lateral black bands and are more strongly punctured; the constriction of the thorax at the |
