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Show 1893.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 747 characterize below 1 that Gerstaecker's description and figure D. divisa better apply. His species was founded upon one female specimen taken at Tette. 57. OOTHECA, sp. inc. This species appears to be new; but the specimens are not in a sufficiently satisfactory condition to admit of detailed description. 58. PACHYTOMA GIGANTEA, Illig. This has a very wide distribution in Africa. It appears to be abundant at Zomba. 59. CASSIDA HYBRIDA, Bohem. 60. CASSIDA PARUMMACULATA, Bohem. COCCINELLIDAE. 61. CYDONIA LUNATA, Fabr. 62. EPILACHNA PAYKULLI, Muls. 63. EPILACHNA HIRTA, Thunb. 64. EPILACHNA DREGEI, Muls. P.S., December 27th, 1893.-Since this communication was read examples of the following species, also collected at Zomba and preserved in alcohol, have come to hand:- CICINDELIDS. 65. ClCINDELA CLATHRATA, Dej. CARABIDS. 66. GRAPHIPTERUS SALINS, Bertol. 67. SCARITES SUPERCILIOSUS, Klug. 1 DlACANTHA MUTICA, Sp. n. ? B. divisa, Gerst. (Galleruca). D. conifera similis, sed difert antennis crassioribus et paullo brevioribus, margine postica pronoti in utroque sexu arcuato-rotundata ; scutello nigro ; elytris densius punctatis, minus nitidis, utrisque in mare juxta scutellum leviter foveolatis, haud tuberculatis. Head prothorax, abdomen, the two basal joints of the antennae, and rather more than the anterior third of the elytra fulvous ; the rest black. Pronotum with a foveolate depression on each side near the middle of its length, and m the male with two very small foveae not widely separated and placed close to the bind margin ; tbe latter somewhat rounded in both sexes, but a little less obtuse in the 'male. Elytra rather thickly punctured and submtid ; each in tbe male with a small pit placed close by the side of the scutellum. Tbe outer edsre of this pit is slightly raised and is all that represents the strong and prominent tubercle occupying a similar position in B. conifera and other species of the genus. All the examples I have seen are from JNatal. |
