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Show 1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 573 CANDEZEA NIGRITARSIS, n. sp. Fulvous, the antennas (the basal joints excepted) and the tarsi black; thorax sparingly, elytra very closely and finely punctured. Length 1| line. Head impunctate, fulvous, frontal tubercles transverse, eyes very large ; antennae robust and long, extending nearly to the end of the elytra, black, the lower three joints fulvous, second and third joints small, the latter slightly longer and trigonate in shape, the other joints elongate and pubescent; thorax at least twice as broad as long, the sides slightly rounded, the anterior angles oblique, the disc very finely and rather sparingly punctured, fulvous, shining; elytra of the same colour, very closely and finely punctured, their epipleuras continued below the middle : the underside and the legs fulvous ; tarsi black, the metatarsus of the posterior legs very long, all the tibiae mucronate ; the anterior cavities closed. Hah. Mashonaland (67. Marshall). British Museum and m y own collection. From C. varlpennls and some nearly similarly coloured species the present one may be at once distinguished by tbe black antennae and tarsi in connection with the fulvous underside and legs. CANDEZEA NIGROCJERULEA, n. sp. Black, the head, the basal joints of the antennas, the thorax and legs fulvous; elytra dark metallic blue, finely and closely punctured. Length 1^ line. Head with a few7 extremely minute punctures, fulvous, the frontal tubercles and the carina obsolete, labrum testaceous ; antennas extending to half the length of the elytra, black, the lower four joints fulvous, basal joint long and slender, second and third joints short, nearly equal, the following more elongate; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight and obliquely narrowed towards the front, the posterior margin rounded, the disc impunctate, fulvous ; scutellum black ; elytra strongly convex and subcylindrical, the apex of each rounded, the surface closely and finely punctured, dark metallic blue, below black ; legs fulvous, all the tibias mucronate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi very long. Hab. Mashonaland (67. Marshall). Collections British Museum and m y own. CANDEZEA DUVIVIERI, n. sp. Pale fulvous, the breast piceous; thorax and elytra minutely punctured, the latter with ten or twelve large black spots, placed obliquely at the lower portion. Length 2\ lines. Head very finely and closely punctured, the frontal tubercles PROC ZOOL. Soc-1897, No. XXXVIII. 38 |
