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Show 402 M. JACOBY ON N E W SPECIES O F B E E T L E S . [June 19, and the antennse black ; elytra very finely and closely punctured, fulvous, the suture and a transverse band at the middle black. Length 3 lines. Head very sparingly and finely punctured, deeply transversely grooved between the eyes ; frontal tubercles as well as the carina strongly raised. Antenna? half the length of the body (5), filiform, black. Thorax square-shaped, tbe sides slightly rounded, posterior margin distinctly concave at the middle ; surface somewhat convex, without any depressions, fulvous, finely granulose punctate. Scutellum piceous. Elytra widened from the base to the apex, very convex at their posterior half, and from there to the apex abruptly declined ; surface closely and finely granulose-punctate, fulvous ; a longitudinal band at the suture, gradually narrowed near the apex, and a transverse band below the middle, not quite extending to the lateral margin, black ; from the shoulder to below the middle a single costa is seen at each elytron. Underside and legs black, finely covered with yellowish pubescence. Abdomen fulvous, the first segments more or less stained with black. Hab. Africa, Transvaal. A single female specimen is contained in m y collection. 6. MEGALOGNATHA UNIFASCIATA, sp. nov. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) Black. Antenna? in the male triangularly widened at the seventh and eighth joints; in the female simple. Thorax and the elytra closely punctured ; the latter flavous, with a broad transverse band below the middle. Length 2|-2| lines. Head impunctate, the lower part projecting; labrum obscure testaceous. Antennae half the length of the body, black; the terminal joints testaceous at their inner sides ; the seventh and eighth joints flattened and with an angular projection within, rest of the terminal joints less flattened. Thorax square-shaped, the space below the anterior margin raised into a triangular-shaped elevation ; rest of the surface finely punctured in the male, more strongly granulose-punctate in the female. Scutellum black. Elytra punctured as in the preceding species, testaceous or flavous, with a broad transverse black band below the middle, which does not quite extend to the lateral margin. Underside and legs black ; abdomen fulvous. Hab. Transvaal. Collection Jacoby. Distinguished from Mr cavicollis, Baly, by the shape and colour of its thorax. 7. MEGALOGNATHA BIPUNCTATA, sp. nov. (Plate XLV. fig. 9.) Elongate, convex, subparallel, fulvous; antennae, legs, and breast obscure piceous ; thorax and elytra finely punctured, a spot at the middle of each elytron black. Length 4 lines. Head impunctate. Antennae very closely approached in the male, the seventh and eighth joints in the same sex triangularly |
