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Show 1904.] AFRICAN PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 233 Length 5 millim. Var. Elytra entirely testaceous. Head constricted behind the eyes, pale fulvous, the eyes large and round, the intermediate space as well as the anterior portion clothed with short golden pubescence, the middle of the vertex with a round blackish spot; antenna? short, fuscous, the base of the intermediate and following joints fulvous, the basal joint entirely of that colour; thorax not longer- than broad, constricted near the base, the sides with a slightly-curved not deep groove and a deeper round fovea placed higher and anteriorly, the surface entirely impunctate, testaceous; scutellum black; elytra with deep round punctures placed in closely approached rows and of smaller size posteriorly, the shoulders not very prominent and bounded within by a black spot, the extreme sutural margin of the latter* colour; legs testaceous, the apex of each joint of the tarsi fuscous ; breast black, closely covered with golden pubescence ; abdomen fulvous. Hob. Salisbury, Mashonaland (67. Marshall). A species of narrow shape, and distinguished by the colour of the head in connection with the pubescence of the latter. The variety agrees in every way with the type, except in the absence of the elytral black markings, which may perhaps vary to a greater or less extent in other specimens. LEMA ^ETHIOPICA, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig. 1.) Reddish fulvous, the antenna? (the first joint excepted) and the tarsi black; thorax very closely and stx-ongly punctured, deeply transversely sulcate and bifoveolate; elytra metallic blue, the apex fulvous, strongly punctured, the interstices transversely wrinkled. Length 7 millim. Head sparingly but distinctly punctured, strongly bituberculate, constricted behind tlxe eyes, the latter deeply notched; clyperrs extending upwards into a broad but anteriorly pointed prolongation between the antenna?; labrum black; antenna? comparatively short, slightly and gr-adually thickened towards the terminal ioints, black, tlxe basal joint fulvous ; thorax not longer than broad, anteriorly widened, the angles tuberculiform, the lateral fovea? deep, bounded above by a perpendicular ridge, the basal sulcus very deep, the surface with a round fovea at each side anteriorly, extremely closely and rather strongly punctured throughout, the punctures of different sizes ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra convex, not depressed below the base, the punctures closely placed and strong, the interstices scarcely raised, transversely wrinkled, the apex to a short distance fulvous; below and the legs fulvous, the tarsi black. Hah. Mashonaland (my collection). A very distinct species of rather large size, well distinguished by the very closely punctured and bifoveolate thorax and the coloration of the elytra. |
