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Show 240 MB. M. JACOBT ON THE [Feb. 2, punctured; elytra greenish black, strongly punctate-striate; last abdominal segment and the legs more or less flavous. Length 1§ line. Head dark fulvous, the vertex very convex, not constricted behind the eyes, minutely punctured, the sides and the middle deeply longitudinally sulcate; eyes large, very slightly notched; antennas extending to the base of the thorax only, the lower five and the apical joint fulvous, the others black, basal joints very short, nearly moniliform, the following five joints transverse, broader than long; thorax scarcely longer than broad, the sides but very little constricted at the base, the surface without a sulcus, very minutely punctured and finely granulose, of a dark fulvous colour, with a slight asneous gloss ; scutellum broader than long; elytra with a slight depression below the base, closely and strongly punctate-striate, the punctures rather elongate, the interstices flat, except near the extreme apex, impunctate; legs flavous, the femora marked with piceous at the middle; breast and abdomen greenish black, the last abdominal segment flavous. Hah. Tsipango, Natal (G. Marshall); also Mashonaland. This is a very interesting little Lema, and unlike any other with which I am acquainted, on account of the very short antennas and their transversely-shaped joints and the scarcely constricted thorax. I have seen six specimens of this species. LEMA FUSCITARSIS, n. sp. Testaceous ; the apical joints of the antennas and the tarsi more or less fuscous; head and thorax impunctate ; elytra very deeply punctate-striate, the interstices at the apex convex. Length 2 lines. Head scarcely constricted behind the eyes, impunctate, the space between the eyes strongly swollen, with a deep central fovea, the supraocular grooves moderately deep, with some yellow pubescence; eyes not very deeply notched; antennas scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, the basal joint short and thick, the second very short, the third and fourth equal, twice as long as the second one, the apex of each joint slightly stained with fuscous, the terminal joints entirely of that colour; thorax not longer than broad, the sides moderately constricted, the basal sulcus not very deep, the disc entirely impunctate, shining; scutellum with the apical margin emarginate; elytra scarcely perceptibly depressed below the base, deeply foveolate-punctate at the base, less strongly punctured posteriorly, the interstices not raised, except at the sides and apex; underside entirely testaceous, clothed wdth fine yellow pubescence; the legs of the same colour, the apex of each tarsal joint and the claws fuscous. Hab. Tsipango (Natal); collected by M r . G. Marshall. Allied to L. Infima, Lac, from Senegal, but differing in the colour of the antennas and tarsi, in the impunctate head and thorax, and the deep elytra! punctuation at the base ; the punctures at the lower portion are rather elongate in shape and as large as the space |