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Show 1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 249 flavous, strongly and semi-regularly punctured, a spot on the shoulders and a transverse baud near the apex black; tibias and tarsi flavous. Length 3-31 lines. Head black; the vertex smooth, convex, the lower portion rugose-punctate ; antennas scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the lower four joints fulvous ; thorax with strongly deflexed sides, the lateral margins but slightly rounded, the surface subcylindrical, extremely sparingly and finely punctured, reddish-fulvous, a short elongate spot at the middle and a small spot at each side black; scutellum broad, black; elytra wdth closely approached rows of strong punctures, wdiich are rather irregularly placed at the base, flavous, a spot on the shoulder and a transverse band at some distance from the apex extending to the sides black ; underside closely pubescent, the greater portion of the tibias and the tarsi flavous. Hab. Delagoa Bay, Zambezi Biver. Of this species I possess three specimens, which agree very nearly with each other, except that in two of them the small lateral spot on the thorax is wanting. I a m unable to find any species or variety described by Lacordaire or others which agrees with the present insect; there are no lateral stripes of the elytra or sutural ones, as in so many species of this genus, and the punctuation of the elytra is strong and closely placed; the tibias and tarsi in all the specimens are nearly entirely fulvous. PEPLOPTERA ANGULATO-FASCIATA, n. sp. Black ; thorax fulvous, with a short central black stripe, the sides punctured ; elytra paler, strougly punctured anteriorly ; a spot on the shoulders and an angulate narrow band below the middle black. Length 3 | lines. Subcylindrical; the vertex convex, finely punctured, with a deep central groove ; lower portion of face rugose ; antennas extending to half the length of the thorax only, fuscous, the lower four joints fulvous ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, narrowed anteriorly, the median lobe slightly produced, truncate, the surface convex, reddish fulvous, with some distinct punctures near the anterior margin and at the posterior angles, as well as along the basal margin, the latter at the middle narrowly black, the centre with another short longitudinal black stripe ; scutellum black, impunctate, its apex truncate ; elytra distinctly lobed at the sides below the shoulders, strongly punctured in closely approached, semi-regular rows, the posterior portion nearly impunctate ; the shoulders wdth an elongate black spot, a strongly angulate narrow transverse band is placed immediately below the middle, the angulate portion being directed towards the apex; the suture is likewise black near the extreme apex ; underside and legs strongly pubescent; legs and tarsi very robust. Hah. Transvaal. |