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Show 1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 221 cupreous patch, which widens somewhat at the sides, the suture and lateral margins likewise more or less greenish aeneous; below nearly black, the legs fulvous ; prosternum strongly punctured. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, obtained by sweeping (67. Marshall). It is probable that the unicolorous flavous specimen represents the female of this species, since the anterior tarsi are more slender and thinner than in the specimens which I look upon as the other sex, but there is only a single individual of the former sex before me. COLASPOSOMA CONRADI, Sp. U. Metallic green with fulvous gloss, base of the femora flavous, tibiae fulvous ; thorax very closely aud finely punctured ; elytra strongly and irregularly punctured, with traces of longitudinal lines, the sides strongly rugose in both sexes. Fern. Elytra with a smooth, rather broad, longitudinal costa near the suture. Length 6-8 millim. Head finely longitudinally strigose at the sides of the vertex, the latter sparingly punctured; clypeus more strongly punctate, not separated from the face, but with a small fovea at the base, its anterior margin slightly concave-emarginate ; labrum and palpi fulvous ; antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, the lower six joints fulvous, the others black, rather widened ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides rounded and with a narrow reflexed margiu, the disc closely and finely punctured throughout, with a transverse depression near the anterior margin; scutellum broad, with a few strong punctures ; elytra with a fulvous tint, strongly and closely punctured, the punctures arranged in rows near the suture ; the interstices smooth and slightly raised near the apex, strongly transversely rugose at the sides, the lateral margin accompanied by two distinctly raised smooth costae; underside nearly smooth, metallic green, the sides of the abdomen and of the breast fulvous ; femora metallic green, their base flavous, tibiae fulvous, the apex and the tarsi dark aeneous ; prosternum very broad, clothed with grey pubescence. Hab. Cameroons (Conrad). This species will not be very difficult to recognize on account of the flavous base of the femora and the strongly rugose sides of the elytra in both sexes; in the female this is, however, still much more pronounced, as well as the elytral costae. I received two specimens from Dr. Kraatz. C. antiquum Har. is a closely allied species, but differs iu the much more finely and evenly punctured elytra and in the colour of the antennae and legs. C. abdominale Lefev. (lefevrei Baly) is described with testaceous antennae and legs, but seems otherwise closely allied. COLASPOSOMA ALUTACEUM, sp. n. Dark aeneous,"finely pubescent, the antennae and tarsi piceous |