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elongate, their greatest width being below the middle, the upper edge is furnished 

 with an acute ridge, followed by a longitudinal sulcation which extends nearly 

 to the base ; the first abdominal segment is smooth with some fine punctures. 



Whether the female specimen really represents the same or another species 

 I am not able to say with certainty. 



Sagra muelleriana Qnedenfeldt (Berl. Zeitsck. 1888) seems to me to be identical 

 with S. murrayi Baly according to the description. The author only compares 

 his species with S. tristis Lac, but does not mention those described by Baly since. 



Lema subdepressa sp. nov. 



Entirely flavous, broad, snbdepressed, thorax not longer than broad with a 

 few minute punctures, elytra without basal depression, strongly punctate-striate 

 anteriorly, finely so at the apex, claws black. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head constricted behind the ejes, impunctate, the intermediate space raised 

 into two moderate elevations, eyes deeply notched, antennae only extending to the 

 base of the elytra, flavous, the basal four joints shining, the rest opaque, third 

 and fourth joints equal, the fifth joint not longer than the next one ; thorax 

 subquadrate, moderately deejily constricted at the sides, the basal sulcus nearly 

 obsolete, the surface rather flattened, scarcely perceptibly punctured at the middle, 

 anterior angles not tuberculiform or produced ; scutellum with its apex truncate 

 and emarginate ; elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, only slightly 

 sulcate within the shoulders and without any basal depression, rather strongly, 

 very regularly but not closely punctate-striate, the punctures very fine near the 

 apex, the interstices flat, here and there with a few very minute punctures, lateral 

 margin thickened and accompanied by a row of deep and closely placed punctures ; 

 underside smooth, impnnctate, posterior femora not extending beyond the second 

 abdominal segment. 



Hab. Kuilu. 



Allied in shape to L. crassipes Oliv., but differing from this and several others 

 of its African congeners in the entirely flavous colour, the nearly impunctate and 

 subquadrate thorax and scarcely punctured interstices of the elytra. I only have 

 seen a single specimen. 



Lema plicaticoUis sp. nov. 



Elongate, parallel, black, the jiosterior portion of the head, the thorax and 

 elytra rufous ; thorax transversely wrinkled at the sides, elytra deeply punctate- 

 striate, the interstices longitudinally costate posteriorly. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head scarcely constricted behind the eyes, nearly imjmnctate, the vertex with 

 two strongly raised tubercles between the eyes, the latter deeply notched, lower 

 part of the face black, finely pubescent ; antennae black, the basal joint obscure 

 rnfous, third and fourth joints equal, terminal joint not extending much beyond 

 the base of the elytra ; thorax scarcely longer than broad, the sides but very 

 moderately constricted at the middle, the anterior angles tuberculiform, the basal 

 sulcus deep, the surface finely punctured in rows at the middle, the sides traversely 

 strigose or wrinkled ; elytra scarcely perceptibly depressed below the base, very 

 deeply punctate-striate, the punctures much finer towards the ai)ex, where the 



