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Show 1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 245 Head with a few fine punctures, testaceous or flavous ; the vertex with a triangular black spot; clypeus not separated from the face; labrum deeply emarginate ; apex of the mandibles black ; palpi rather robust; antennas inserted below the inner margin of the eyes, not extending to the middle of the elytra, testaceous, the second joint one-half shorter than the third, this latter shorter than the fourth, the following joints elongate, the terminal ones shorter again and slightly thickened ; thorax gradually narrowed towards the base, about one-half broader than long, the surface remotely but rather strongly punctured, with an obsolete transverse depression near the base, the disc flavous or testaceous, with a triangular black spot at the middle of the anterior margin and another at the middle of the base, the flanks of the thorax likewise black ; elytra with rows of deep and regular punctures, all the interstices longitudinally costate, the lateral margin not visible from above, narrowly black, like the suture ; underside black; legs flavous or testaceous. Hah. Madagascar, Diego-Suarez (C. Alluaud). MIOPRISTIS (LOPHOBASIS) NATALENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 5.) Black, pubescent, lower portion of the face flavous ; thorax flavous with two large black spots, coarsely punctured; elytra finely and closely punctured, flavous or testaceous, the margins narrowly and a spot on the shoulders black, the base with a ridge. Mas. The anterior legs very long, femora robust, tibias curved, tarsi slender. Fern. Legs equal, entirely flavous ; the elytra more closely and strongly punctured. Length 3-3^ lines. o*. Head black at the upper portion and closely pubescent, the sides prolonged below the eyes, these small, feebly notched below ; clypeus flavous, deeply triangularly emarginate at the anterior margin; mandibles broad, flavous, strongly curved inwards at the tip, the latter black; palpi flavous, the apex black; antennas extending to about the base of the thorax, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the basal joint black above, the second and third short, equal, the following joints very strongly triangularly dentate and widened; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides and the posterior angles rounded, the surface sparingly and coarsely punctured, flavous, shining, the disc more or less fulvous, w ith a large black subquadrate spot at each side of variable size ; scutellum black, pubescent at its base, its apex truncate ; elytra wdth a narrow transverse ridge at the basal margin, closely punctured in irregular rows, flavous, opaque, the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly black, the shoulders wdth a small black spot; underside and the legs black, the extreme base of the femora and the tibias more or less flavous; the first joint of the anterior tarsi in the male as long as the following two joints together. Hab. Natal, Estcourt (67. Marshall). |
