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Show 240 MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA [Mar. 6, pubescent; legs fulvous, the femora more or less aeneous, unarmed, claws bifid; prosternum broad, subquadrate, punctured and pubescent ; the posterior legs widely separated. Hab. Dunbrody, Cape Colony (Rev. J. O'Neil). A good many specimens of this species were kindly sent to m e , by the Rev. J. O'Neil, who seems to be an ardent entomologist and collector. The insect must come close to P. rotundicollis Chap., which is diagnosed in a three-line description, and which says nothing about the colour of the legs nor mentions a pubescence arranged in bands, which can be plainly seen in well-marked specimens ; these bands are of uneven shape and the hairs composing them are long; the general colour is a dark cupreous. PAUSIRIS FUSCITARSIS, sp. n. Obscure aeneous, clothed with white pubescence, the antenna) and the tibiae fulvous ; thorax very finely and closely punctured. with rows of closely arranged pubescence : tarsi fuscous. Length 3 millim. Head broad, closely punctured, and clothed with white pubescence, labrum and palpi fulvous; antennae with the terminal five joints strongly thickened, fulvous, the second joint thicker but scarcely shorter than the third, this and the following three joints more elongate ; thorax subglobulose, widened aud thickened at the middle, rounded at the sides, the latter with a distinct margin, the surface finely and closely punctured, obscure cupreous, clothed with long whitish hairs ; scutellum subquadrate; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, the shoulders prominent, the punctation slightly stronger than that of tbe thorax, and arranged in close and irregular rows,the interstices closely covered with white hairs, which are likewise arranged in closely approached rows; below and the legs similarly pubescent, the femora distantly placed at the base, unarmed ; tbe tibiae fulvous, the tarsi fuscous. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, also Malvern, Natal (G. Marshall). 1 have seen four specimens of this species, kindly sent by Mr. G. Marshall. It differs from the other described species in the colour of the antenna? aud tibiae and other details. CHRYSOMELIN^;. CHRYSOMELA LIVINGSTONI, sp. n. Below black, above greenish or purplish, head finely punctured • thorax sparingly punctured on the disc, more closely so at tbe sides • elytra extremely convex, semiglobose, irregularly punctured at the sides, the lateral margins purplish with a short row of deep punctures at the base. Length 8 millim. Of strongly convex, semicircular shape, the head very finely punctured; the clypeus nearly impunctate, feebly separated from the face; the antennae black, the basal joint sometimes fulvous below, the terminal joints moderately thickened, distinctly longer |