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Show 550 MR. M. JACOBY O N THE [May 18, scutellum black ; elytra with a deep transverse depression the base, punctured like the thorax, the two anterior thirds black, the posterior one fulvous, the edge of division of the black portion deeply concave at the sides, convex near the suture; underside and legs black; the last abdominal segment fulvous. Hah. Africa. The single specimen in my collection w7as formerly in that of Major V. Quedenfeldt and has no particular locality indicated; the species differs from all its allies in the coloration. EURYOPE NIGEICOLLIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.) Black, head and thorax very finely punctured; elytra testaceous, finely punctured, the margins very narrowdy black. Length 4 lines. Head entirely black, very finely and not closely punctured, with au obsolete fovea at the middle of the vertex and another at the base of the antennae ; palpi and antennae black, the latter extending to the base of the elytra ; the second and third joints of the antennae equal, the others gradually widened and robust; thorax of usual shape, the sides straight and obliquely widened towards the apex, all the angles acute, the surface with a transverse depression near the base, very finely punctured, black, shining; scutellum black, its apex broadly rounded; elytra testaceous, scarcely more strongly punctured than the thorax, the margins extremely narrowly black, their epipleuras of the same colour as well as the underside and legs. Hah. East Africa. In my collection Distinguished from all its congeners by the black head and thorax and the pale coloured elytra; two specimens are before me. NOTE. Nerlssldius, Weise.-A Eumolpid genus described by Weise in the Deutsche entom. Zeitsch. 1895, and allied to Nerissus, is compared with this genus by the author, but the latter has evidently overlooked Baly's genus Cheirldea (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1877), which has the sides of the thorax likewise serrate, and with which Weise's genus may be identical; but no mention is made in regard to the shape of the thoracic margin of the episternum, which at present forms the chief character of distinction in the two principal groups of Eumolpince. HALTICINiE. NlSOTRA INCISICOLLIS, n. Sp. Oblong-ovate, fulvous ; thorax finely and closely punctured, with deep anterior and posterior grooves ; elytra metallic green, irregularly and closely impressed with small and still smaller punctures. Length 1\ line. Head very finely and sparingly punctured; the clypeus more strongly so, separated at the sides by narrow oblique grooves, |
