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Show 360 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Mar. 7, Length 7 millim. Head flavous, the vertex rugose at the sides, the middle impunctate, with a black spot, labrum and apex of the mandibles black, frontal tubercles broad, transverse, carina distinct: antennas short, black, the basal joint pale below, intermediate joints triangularly Avidened, terminal ones moniliform, apical joint ovate, pointed ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the surface deeply transversely sulcate, Avith a few fine scattered punctures, flavous, the anterior portion with a black central spot; scutellum black ; elytra paler than the thorax, finely and closely punctured, the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly black ; beloAv and the legs flavous, the tibias below and at the apex and the tarsi black. Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (67. Marshall). Closely allied to A. capense Alld., but differing in the black elytral margins, which are constant in all tbe specimens that Mr. Marshall obtained. ASBECESTA POLITA, Sp. n. Flavous, the head and the antennas black, apical joints of the latter flavous; thorax impunctate; elytra closely and rather strongly punctured. Length 5 millim. Head impunctate, black, the frontal tubercles broad and distinct; labrum testaceous, stained with piceous ; the antennas extending to the middle of the elytra, robust, black, the basal joints below and the base of each following joint fulvous, the apical three joints flavous ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the anterior angles slightly produced into a small tubercle, the disc transversely sulcate at the middle, entirely impunctate, flavous ; scutellum impunctate, flavous ; elytra slightly widened posteriorly, rather strongly and closely punctured, the interstices slightly Avrinkled here and there; below and the legs flavous, claw-joints piceous. Hab. Cameroons (Conrad). Distinguished from all its allies by the colour of the head and that of the antennas. I received a single specimen from Dr. Kraatz. MALACOSOMA MELANOCEPHALUM, sp. n. Black, head finely granulate; thorax fulvous, transverse, minutely punctured; elytra fulvous, finely and closely punctured, the interstices finely Avrinkled ; legs partly piceous and fulvous. Length 4 millim. Elongate and parallel; the head black, broad, very finely granulate at the vertex and minutely punctured, the frontal tubercles strongly raised but nearly joined and forming a single piece with the clypeus, anterior edge of the latter straight, labrum and palpi testaceous ; antennas extending beyond the middle of the elytra, |
