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Head iirojected, closely jnibesccut, tbo middle jiortioii black, the sides bright 

 fulvous, eyes deeply notched, clypeus furnished with a transverse row of black 

 hairs, its base and apex, fnlvons, labrum black, paljii fulvous, antennae extending 

 to the base of the tliorax, black, the last joint jiartly fulvous, the second joint 

 very short, the lower four joints clothed with long Idack pubescence, the following 

 ones strongly transverse ; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely 

 produced into a blunt tubercle below the middle, the surface with an obscure 

 transverse groove near the anterior and posterior margin, densely clothed with 

 bright fulvous pubescence, the middle and the underside near the coxae with a 

 black longitudinal band, single stiff bristle-like hairs are also intermixed with 

 the shorter pubescence; scutellum black; elytra, closely and somewhat rngosely 

 punctured, thickly clothed with fulvous jiubescence, the upper two-thirds fulvous, 

 the apical portion black, the upper edge of this colour irregularly dentate, 

 underside and legs black, the coxae flavous ; abdomen clothed with long silvery 

 hairs. 



Hah. Kuilu. 



Gynandrophthalma basalis sp. nov. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, fulvous, antennae tlavons, thorax nearly impunctate, 

 elytra finely punctured in rows, fulvous, the anterior third portion black, the 

 lower edge of this colour oblique. 



Length 2i lines. 



Head entirely impunctate, without any grooves but with a small fovea between 

 the eyes, the clypeus rather convex, but slightly emarginate at the apex, eyes 

 distinctly notched, antennae extending to the base of the elytra only, flavous, 

 the lower four joints shining, the rest opaque, second and third joints small, 

 equal ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the posterior 

 angles distinct, the surface distinctly punctured along the base only, rest of the 

 disc impunctate, scutellum rather long, pointed, its apex slightly truncate, fulvous; 

 elytra very finely jmnetured in indistinct rows, fulvous, a transverse band narrowed 

 towards the suture and occupying the basal tliiid portion of the elytra, black ; 

 underside and legs fulvous, the tarsi short. 



Hab. Kuilu. A single example. 



Apparently closely allied to G. basij/ennis Lac, Imt differing in the distinct 

 punctures at the base of the thorax and the finely punctured elytra, also in the 

 shape of the black elytral band. 



Gynandrophthalma africana s]). nov. 



Fulvous, the head, the femora, and the tibiae at the apex, black, thorax 

 impunctate with a central black patch, elytra extremely finely and remotely 

 ])unctured, a sutural and lateral band connected by a broad transverse band near the 

 aj)ex, black. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head broad, impunctate, obsoletely transversely grooved between the eyes, 

 antennae not extending to the base of the thorax, black, the lower two or three 

 joints fulvous, terminal joints transverse ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, 

 the sides rather strongly deflexed. slightly rounded, tiio jiosterior margin with a 

 broadly rounded and sliglitly produced median lobe, the surface entirely imjiunctate, 

 the sides fulvous, the middle occupied by a broad anteriorly slightly narrowed black 



