266 Mr. A. White on some apparently unrecorded 



abdomen on each side with two rows of paler-coloured spots ; 

 antennae with the second, third, and fourth joints thickened. 



Length 10 lines. 



Hab. S. Africa (Dr. Andrew Smith). In Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Leprodera morimoides, n. s. 



L. scabra et subtuberculata, fusco-brunnea ; oculis angustis ; cervice 

 nigro transversim quadrimaculato ; elytris singulis basi quadratis, 

 plagis duabus nigris ochraceo marginatis, una ad basin, altera ma- 

 jore ad latus postice emarginata. 



Rough, subtuberculated, and of an earthy-brown; eyes nar- 

 row; head with the surface irregularly pitted; the back part 

 with four small black spots arranged transversely, a yellow spot 

 between the outer and the inner ; thorax scabrous, and deeply 

 punctured and wrinkled, with a transverse impressed line a little 

 behind the fore margin; elytra tuberculated, tubercles small, 

 posterior part smoothish, the shoulder squarely angled; each 

 elytron has two black, smooth, velvet-like spots slightly margined 

 with ochreous, one a little behind the base, neither touching the 

 side nor the suture; a larger black spot behind the middle, 

 notched behind, its outer side on the margin of the elytron ; 

 elytra when closed having a notch between them. 



Length 10-12 lines. 



Hub. Silhet. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Nyplwna thoracica, n. s. 



N. latiuscula, griseo-subfuscula; capite antice emarginato; mandibulis 

 antice planis et politis ; thoracis dorso tuberculis duobus magnis, 

 supra apicibus tribus, inter tubercula linea brevi profunde impressa; 

 scutello lateribus albis ; elytris singulis medio basi pilorum crista 

 elongata, medio late sed obscure pallido fasciato, maculis punctis- 

 que paucis fuscis ; elytris apice et lateribus postice ciliatis ; pedi- 

 bus et corpore infra subrubidis ; abdominis segmentis medio basi 

 obscuris ; tibiis apice late fuscis ; omnibus rectis et simplicibus. 



Rather broad, of a griseous brownish hue, very densely covered 

 with hairs ; the mandibles in front flattened, black, polished ; 

 the head between the antennse widely notched ; thorax narrower 

 than the elytra ; back of the thorax with two large tubercles 

 occupying most of the upper part of the thorax, each with three 

 smaller tubercles ; between the tubercles is a short deeply im- 

 pressed line ; the scutellum has the sides white ; each of the 

 elytra has near the base a longitudinal crest of longish hairs, 

 with one or two other small obscure tufts, and the shoulders as 

 well as base are rather deeply punctured; across the middle 

 there is a very wide but indistinct palish band, traversed by 

 three or four reddish longitudinal lines ; the end of the elytra 



