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Show 260 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 2, surface only perceptibly punctured when seen under a strong lens, the entire disc almost occupied by two broad rufous bands, which sometimes unite or are only divided by a very narrow streak of the ground-colour, the anterior margin and the sides more broadly bright yellow-, the base with two small black spots, all the extreme margins likewise black ; scutellum slightly longer than broad, black; elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, the space surrounding the scutellum rather raised, the punctures fine, nearly obliterated at the base, the interstices flat, slightly wrinkled here and there. flavous, the base with a transverse black band, which is gradually narrowed towards the suture, but leaves the extreme lateral margin of the ground-colour, another narrower black band is placed near the apex, wdth its upper and lower margins irregularly indented; underside, legs, and pygidium fulvous, finely pubescent. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (67. Marshall). This pretty species seems very nearly to resemble in coloration C. clecoratus, Beiche, from Abyssinia, but the position of the elytral bands and that of the spots of the thorax is different: in the latter respect I am not acquainted with any other species from Africa being similarly marked with three shades of colour, except in the case of C. clecoratus; but in that species the black spots of the thorax are placed at the middle and not at the base, the autennas are entirely fulvous, and the elytral bands broader. C. bifasciatus, Fabr., has an entirely fulvous thorax, with two central black spots and differently shaped elytral bands. There are four specimens before me. CRYPTOCEPHALUS ATROCINCTUS, n. sp. Head, antennas, and the breast black ; thorax fulvous, with pale margins and two broad black bands, finely punctured; elytra moderately deeply punctured, flavous, with a sutural and two lateral black longitudinal bands abbreviated posteriorly. Length 2 lines. Head black, rather closely punctured; the clypeus and a narrow stripe in front of the eyes greyish or yellowish white ; antennas extending to about the middle of the elytra, slender, black, the lower four or five joints more or less fulvous at the base, third and fourth joint nearly equal, the following more elongate, terminal joints slightly thickened; thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed in front, the lateral margins nearly straight, the basal margin with some small teeth at the angles, the surface very finely and rather closely punctured, reddish fulvous, the margins flavous, the sides more broadly so, extreme basal margin black, the disc with two broad oblique black bands, not extending to the anterior margin and sometimes reduced to two small spots only ; scutellum nearly subquadrate, black with a fulvous spot; elytra moderately strongly punctate-striate, the punctures at the sides larger and more closely placed, the surface bright yellow, with three black longitudinal bands, not extending to the apex, the sutural one narrowed at the base but widened into a slightly triangular shape at the apex and |
