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so in the female where they are there twice as broad as across the 

 base and strongly convex, they are closely foveolate-punctate, and 

 the transverse folds are very little distinct on the discoidal part, and 

 not strong on the lateral ; under side briefly pubescent, legs mode- 

 rately villose. In the male the intermediate and posterior tibiae are 

 arcuate, and the inner angle of the intermediate ones is produced 

 into a small hook. 



Length 7i-8^ mm. ; width 2f-4 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira). P. A. Sheppard. 



LAGRIA CAPICOLA, n. sp. 



Male : Head and prothorax bronze-green, under side and legs 

 reddish-bronze, elytra light testaceous-yellow, antennae black ; it is 

 clothed with an upright, moderately dense, greyish-white pubescence ; 

 head with a plain, semicircular impression in the anterior part, 

 deeply scrobiculate there, less so laterally ; antennae long, the six 

 penultimate joints obconic, hardly transverse, last one not wider 

 than the penultimate and as long as the preceding three taken 

 together ; prothorax as long as broad, visibly constricted in front 

 and behind, roughly and irregularly punctate, scrobiculate on the 

 sides, the basal margin is narrowly flavescent ; scutellum bronze- 

 green, roughly punctate ; elytra moderately ampliated laterally in 

 the posterior part, without any costule, and with the network of 

 transverse folds very plain ; under side very shiny and very sparsely 

 pubescent, legs villose ; all the tibiae are strongly incurved, the 

 posterior ones are strongly arcuate, and the inner angle of the 

 intermediate ones has an iipical elongated process diagonally 

 truncate. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). L. Peringuey. 



LAGRIA ELIZABETHS, n. sp. 



Black, with a faint metallic tinge, elytra dark cyaneous, upper and 

 under side clothed with a fine, short greyish pubescence ; antennae 

 long in the male, shorter in the female ; head roughly punctate and 

 rugose, deeply impressed in the anterior part of the head ; in the 

 male the four penultimate antennal joints are sub-triangular, very 

 broad at apex, almost serrate inwardly, and not set closely, the last 

 joint is very sharp at tip and as long as the three preceding taken 

 together, they are normal in the female ; prothorax nearly cylin- 

 drical, slightly longer than broad in the male, shorter and slightly 



