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Show 1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEEA OF AFRICA. 549 C. melanchollcum, Jac, and several others all having the upper surface pubescent, but the present species differs from all in the strong and rather remote punctuation of the thorax and the deep lateral elytral depression. COLASPOSOMA TRANSVALENSE, n. sp. Metallic green, antennae (the basal three joints excepted) bluish black ; thorax very finely and closely punctured ; elytra more strongly and very closely punctate,the interstices finely transversely wrinkled ; legs dark fulvous ; tarsi piceous. Length 2-2| lines. Of the same general colour and shape as C. senegalense, Cast., of which it may possibly be a local aberration; the head minutely granulate, closely and finely punctured; the clypeus not separated from the face ; labrum metallic green ; basal joints of palpi fulvous, the apical one black; antennae extending beyond the middle of the elytra, the lower three joints fulvous, the others bluish black, metallic, all the terminal joints long and slender ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides strongly rounded, the surface minutely granulate, very closely and finely punctured with some still finer punctation intermixed, the centre of the disc with a narrow smooth space near the base; scutellum broader than long, with some punctures ; elytra very closely and rather more strongly punctured than the thorax, the interstices minutely granulate, punctured and transversely wrinkled at the sides, the base not depressed and the shoulders scarcely prominent; breast metallic green; abdomen dark obscure cupreous ; legs dark fulvous; tarsi nearly black. Hab. Transvaal. Although, as remarked, this species almost entirely resembles C. senegalense, which is frequent in collections and with which it is probably often confounded, the differences are to be found in the metaUic green, not fulvous labrum, the dark blue antennae, and the entirely fulvous legs ; the punctuation of the thorax is also still closer and finer. I possess three specimens, apparently all males, which agree entirely in these details. EURYOPE BIPARTITA, n. sp. (Elate XXXIV. fig. 1.) Black ; head and thorax fulvous, minutely punctured; elytra with basal depression, finely punctured, black, the posterior third portion fulvous. Length 4 | lines. Broad and robust; the head deeply depressed in front of the clypeus, the latter narrowly edged with black ; mandibles strongly punctured, fulvous, the apex black ; antennae extending beyond the base of the thorax, black, the lower two joints fulvous, terminal joints widened; thorax more than three times as broad as long, the sides widened towards the apex, narrowly margined, the anterior angles strongly produced outwards, the surface minutely and closely punctured, with a round fovea at each side, fulvous |