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Show 1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 263 the sides feebly rounded at tbe middle, the angles distinct but not produced, the basal margin but slightly rounded, the surface entirely impunctate; scutellum triangular, fuscous; elytra with their greatest width below the middle, wider at the base than the thorax, the surface with some very minute punctures, only visible under a very strong lens ; below black or piceous, the femora flavous, the tibiae aud tarsi black, all the tibiae mucronate; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following three joints together ; elytral epipleurae continued below the middle. Hab. Port Alfred, South Africa (Rev. J. ONeil). Amongst the unicolorous or for the most part flavous species of this genus known from Africa, the present one seems most nearly allied to G. mashonana Jac, but is only half the size of that species, which has also a flavous underside, and the metatarsus of the posterior legs much longer ; C. nigrotibialis Jac is likewise larger, and the lower joints of the antennae as well as the underside are flavous and the elytra distinctly puuctured ; in several other species the tibiae and tarsi are flavous. I dedicate this species to the Rev. J. O'Neil, in recognition of his constant endeavours to explore the entomological fauna of his district. CANDEZEA LIVINGSTONII, sp. n. Pale flavous or testaceous, the apical joints of the antennae and the breast black; thorax finely punctured, obsoletely sulcate; elytra very finely and closely punctured. Length 3 millim. Head rather broad, impunctate; clypeus strongly thickened, bounded behind by a deep transverse groove; antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, the lower four or five joints flavous, the rest black, the second and third joints equal, short, the fourth double the length and equal to the foil owing joints; thorax transverse, twice as broad as long, the sides very feebly rounded at the middle, the posterior margin rounded, the surface with a shallow transverse sulcus at the middle, finely and closely punctured ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, extremely closely and finely punctured, the interstices somewhat wrinkled, their epipleurae very narrow below the middle; legs flavous, all the tibiae armed with a spine, the metatarsus of the posterior legs very elongate; the breast black. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, obtained by sweeping (G. Marshall). One of the small species of the genus, distinguished by the transverse sulcus of the thorax and the black breast. SARDOIDES NIGRICORNIS, sp. n. Dark metallic blue, the antennae black ; thorax with a deep transverse sulcus ; elytra flavous, finely punctured, the sutural aud lateral margins metallic blue. Length 5-6 millim. d . Elongate and parallel, dark metallic blue ; the head impunctate, the frontal elevations strongly raised, trigonate, the carina 18* |