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Show 1899.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 379 margins narrowly black; their epipleuras likeAvise edged with black and the breast entirely of that colour. Hab. Kurazor, Africa. Of this species I possess three specimens, of which two are simply labelled "Africa" and the other has the above-given locality, which is unknown to me. I believe I received it from M r . Bang- Haas. The specimens vary much in size, but the black elytral margins are strongly marked as well as the colour of the breast; the elytral epipleuras are continued beloAv the middle. Another very closely allied species contained in m y collection is the folloAving. CANDEZEA TENUICOBNIS, sp. n. Pale testaceous, the apical joints of the antennas fuscous; thorax opaque, impunctate ; elytra very finely and closely punctured, testaceous, narrowly margined with black; underside unicolorous. Length 4 millim. Head impunctate, testaceous, the frontal elevations narrowly transverse, the clypeus with a distinct central ridge ; antennas long and slender, the third joint twice as long as the second, but nearly one-half shorter than the fourth, the lower six joints flavous, the rest fuscous ; thorax nearly tAvice as broad as long, the sides straight, strongly obliquely narrowed in front, the anterior angles obliquely thickened, the surface impunctate, opaque, or with a feAv very minute punctures, the disc with a very obsolete transAerse depression at the middle ; scutellum flavous ; elytra very finely and closely punctured, narroAvly margined Avith black, the epipleurae entirely of that colour; abdomen and the legs testaceous, the breast pale fulvous ; all the tibias mucronate ; metatarsus of the posterior legs elongate. Hab. Sierra Leone. In its coloration the present insect almost entirely resembles the preceding one, but the antennas are much more slender and elongate, the third joint is much longer, and the breast is not black ; the general size of the insect is also rather smaller and narrower. CANDEZEA PECTORALIS, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 10.) Black; the head, thorax, and abdomen flavous, impunctate ; elytra very finely and closely puuctured, reddish fulvous, the base with a transverse black band, Avidened at the suture. Length 5 millim. Head flavous, the vertex with a few extremely minute punctures, the frontal elevations trigonate, clypeus thickened, carina acutely raised; labrum black, as w*ell as the palpi; antennas long and slender, black, the ninth and tenth joints, as well as the apex of the eighth and the base of the terminal joint, flavous, basal joint long and slender, the second half the length of the third, the latter shorter than the fourth joint, the following very elongate and thin ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the sides constricted at the base, rather rounded at the middle, posterior angles oblique, the basal |