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spotted with ochraceous at the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth 

 segments ; antennae glossy piceous, first joint, excluding base and 

 apex, luteous ; legs shining black ; bases and apices of femora, 

 and the tarsi, luteous ; apices of tarsi fuscous ; head, pronotum, 

 and body beneath coarsely punctate, sub-granulate ; femora pro- 

 minently spined beneath ; antennae with the second joint rather 

 longer than the third and fourth joints together. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod). 



PHYSOKHYNCHUS ABBREVIATUS, sp. n. 



y . Black ; central fascia to head from between eyes, pronotum 

 excluding black cruciform sulcation, apical prolongations to 

 scutellum, basal angles of hemelytra, lateral margins of con- 

 nexivum, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen beneath, 

 legs, a large central triangular spot to second abdominal seg- 

 ment, a larger subquadrate spot to third segment, and two 

 small central spots to fourth segment, ochraceous ; coxae, tro- 

 chanters, a basal suffusion to femora beneath, extreme apices 

 of femora and tibiae, and extreme bases of tibiae black ; antennae 

 mutilated ; pronotum impunctate, somewhat crenulate on transverse 

 constriction, the central sulcation broadened and foveate on disk, 

 foveately impressed near the lateral angles ; hemelytra abbreviated, 

 only reaching the base of fifth abdominal segment ; connexivum 

 excluding margin, finely transversely rugulose, abdomen above 

 finely and irregularly transversely striate ; body beneath glabrous, 

 anterior margins of second, third, fourth, and fifth abdominal 

 segments more or less crenulate. 



Long. 2 34 mm. 



Hab. East Africa ; Mpwapwa. 



PHYSOEHYNCHUS COSTALIS, sp. n. 



Head, scutellum, and body beneath metallic indigo-black ; 

 hemelytra black ; anterior area of head, rostrum, pronotum, basal 

 angles of hemelytra and clavus, lateral margins of hemelytra 

 broadly, margins of sternum and abdomen beneath, anal seg- 

 ment of abdomen, and legs reddish-ochraceous ; connexivum, 

 posterior legs, and apical margin to abdomen, ochraceous ; antennae, 

 transverse pronotal constriction and central sulcation to anterior 

 lobe, and spots to connexivum, black ; anterior pronotal lobe dis- 

 tinctly, posterior lobe obsoletely punctate ; scutellum rugose ; 



