122 Annals of the South African Museum. 



HlSPA GBACILIS, n. Sp. 



Linear ; black, opaque, and covered with a very brief, silky white 

 pubescence; antennae moderately long, basal joint very thick, 

 angular outwardly, third joint hardly longer than the fourth, the 

 four penultimate ones thickened, submoniliform and sericeous, 

 apical joint also sericeous ; raised discoidal patches of the prothorax 

 not very prominent and partly hidden by a very short pubescence ; 

 elytra punctate and having on each side three dorsal series of short, 

 closely set spines, the intervals of which are spinose in the posterior 

 part, and a marginal one consisting of short, closely set spines not 

 longer than the dorsal. 



Allied to the preceding species, but still narrower, and pubescent 

 instead of being nearly glabrous. Length 4i- mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Estcourt), A. E. Haviland ; Zambesia (Salisbury), 

 G. A. K. Marshall. 



The examples from Salisbury are more densely pubescent than 

 those from Estcourt. 



HlSPA TENELLA, n. Sp. 



Black, sparsely pubescent on the thorax ; antennas long, first and 

 second joints thick, the basal one longer thaii the second by half, 

 third to sixth inclusive slender and of equal length, seventh to 

 eleventh thickened and pubescent, the three penultimate ones sub- 

 moniliform ; thorax without any sphgerical raised patches, but with 

 the dicoidal part denuded longitudinally ; elytra one-third broader than 

 the thorax, covered with a series of moderately broad punctures and 

 having three dorsal and one marginal series of moderately long 

 spines set at some distance from one another. Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Zululand (Eshowe). 



HISPA ZULU, n. sp. 



Black, glabrous ; antennas moderately long, first joint thick, 

 second one half the length and width of the preceding one, third 

 to sixth inclusive, slender and of equal length, seventh to eleventh 

 thickened, very closely set and pubescent ; thorax with two raised 

 but not very distinct discoidal spaces, anterior and lateral spines 

 closely set and long ; elytra one-third broader than the thorax, 

 deeply punctured and having on each side three dorsal series of 

 closely set short spines and a marginal one, the spines of which are 

 closely set, as long as the dorsal, but more slender. Length 3-1- mm. ; 

 width li mm. 



Hab. Zululand (Eshowe). 



