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Show 568 MR. M. JACOBY ON T H E [May 18, LUPERUS BREVICORNIS, n. sp. Black, finely pubescent; joints of the antennas short; thorax and elytra finely coriaceous, opaque. Length 1| line. Narrowly elongate and parallel, the head finely rugose and pubescent, with the frontal tubercles small and obsolete ; clypeus with a central ridge ; antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, tbe second joint small, the following triangularly dilated, but distinctly longer than broad, clothed with stiff pubescence ; thorax one-half broader than long, the sides straight, the anterior angles thickened, the posterior margin slightly rounded, the surface very finely wrinkled, opaque, clothed with whitish pubescence, the middle with an obscure central ridge; scutellum pubescent, triangular; elytra convex, but depressed along the suture, finely but more distinctly wrinkled than the thorax, and similarly clothed with whitish hairs: underside more shining, sparingly pubescent; the femora rather robust; all the tibias mucronate ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi longer than the following joints together ; the anterior coxal cavities open. Hab. Mashonaland (67. Marshall). Coll. Brit. Mus. and m y own. A well distinguished species on account of the structure of the antennas and the pubescence, but otherwise a typical Luperus. LUPERUS MASHONANUS, n. sp. Bluish black, above metallic green or blue, the antennas and legs black ; thorax minutely punctured ; elytra very closely and finely punctate. Length 3 lines. Elongate and parallel; the head minutely granulate, impunctate, the frontal tubercles broad and flat; the clypeus triangular, also impunctate, its anterior edge testaceous ; labrum and palpi black; antennae filiform, black, the second joint one-half smaller than the third, the others elongate and pubescent, extending to about the middle of the elytra; thorax twice as broad as long, subquadrate, the sides straight, narrowly margined, the anterior angles slightly thickened and somewhat rounded, the posterior ones acute, the surface minutely granulate and extremely closely and finely punctured, metallic green or blue, sometimes with an obsolete fovea at each side; scutellum black, impunctate; elytra as closely but more strongly punctured than the thorax, the interstices finely transversely wrinkled : underside and legs black wdth a metallic blue tint; legs slender; the tibias with a short spine; the metatarsus of the posterior legs longer than the following joints together; anterior coxal cavities open. Hab. Mashonaland (67. Marshall). Coll. Brit, Mus. and my own. LUPERUS SCUTELLATUS, n. sp. Flavous, the scutellum and the breast black; head finely |