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Show 262 MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA [Mar. 6 the middle ; below and the legs flavous ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs very elongate, its extreme base stained with black. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (67. Marshall), on Zizgphus. Amongst the smaller uniformly coloured species of this genus there is none in which the thorax has a similar transverse sulcus; this character and the colour of the antennae will help in the recognition of the species. CANDEZEA MOLIROENSIS, sp. n. Fulvous, the antennae and the thorax flavous, the latter scarcely perceptibly punctured; elytra very closely and distinctly punctured, flavous, a sutural spot at the base, a broad transverse band at the middle, and the lateral and apical margins black. Length 4 millim. Of very convex and posteriorly widened shape; the head extremely finely punctured at the vertex, rather broad, the frontal elevations narrowly oblique, clypeus broad, triangular; antennae fulvous (the last three joints wanting), the third joint double the length of the second ; thorax short, more than twice as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides perfectly straight, the anterior angles oblique, the surface microscopically punctured, flavous, scutellum fulvous ; elytra strongly convex, very distinctly, closely, and evenly punctured, their epipleurae continued below the middle, black, the disc flavous, the suture at the base with an elongate black spot nearly connected "with a very broad transverse band at the middle of triangular shape, its greatest width being at the suture, the margins of which it does not quite reach, the shoulders and the entire lateral and apical margins are likewise black ; below and the legs fulvous ; metatarsus of the posterior legs very long. Hab. Moliro, Congo. (Coll. Belgian Mus. and m y own.) This Candezea much resembles in coloration and otherwise certain varieties of C. variopennis Jac from Natal, but in that species the antennae, with the exception of the basal joint and the underside, are nearly always black, the head is less broad, the base of the antennae is more closely approached, and the thorax more distinctly punctured; but for all that the present species may only be another local variety of the very variable insect to which I have alluded. CANDEZEA O'NEILI, sp. n. Below and the tibiae and tarsi black, above testaceous ; antennae fuscous; thorax impunctate ; elytra scarcely perceptibly punctured. Length 4 millim. Head impunctate, flavous or pale fulvous, the frontal elevations strongly raised and broad, clypeus broad, triangular, with a slightly . raised central ridge, labrum piceous ; antennae extending below the middle of the elytra, slender, t he second joint short, the third, one-half longer, the following joints very elongate and equal; thorax scarcely one-half broader than long, slightly narrowed at the base and apex, |