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with a strong lens ; nndorside and legs blackish, the coxae and the tibiae and 

 tarsi fnlvous ; all the tibiae armed with a small spine ; anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



Hah. Port NoUoth (S. W. Africa). 



Oides cribellata sj). nov. 



Broadly ovate, convex, black, antennae short, thorax flavoiis with three small 

 black spots and two central semicircular marks, not very closely bnt finely jinnctnred, 

 elytra very closely and more strongly pnnctnrcd, bhick, ojiaiiue, the sntural and latenil 

 margins flavons. 



Length lines. 



Vertex of the head, the labrnm and palpi black, clypeus flavons, antennae 

 extending a little beyond the base of the thorax, black, the first two joitits fnlvons, 

 the third joint slightly longer than the fourth and following joints ; thorax nearly 

 three times as broad as long, the sides strongly rounded, anterior angles nearly, 

 posterior ones entirely obsolete and rounded, the surface finely and not very closely 

 pnuctured, flavons, the middle of the disc with two curved, separate black marks 

 between which a small black spot is placed, a similar sj)ot is seen at each side ; 

 scutellnm broad, its apex broadly rounded, the base with a few punctures ; elytra 

 strongly widened at the middle, more strongly and closely punctured than the 

 thorax, the punctures round and placed evenly throughout the surface, the latter 

 black and opaque, the sntural margin very narrowly, the lateral one more broadly 

 flavons and also closely and finely punctured : below the shoulders there is a slight 

 but distinct depression at the sides ; underside and legs black. 



Hab. Kuiln. 



Aulacophora oculata Karsch. 



1 have but little donbt that this species is identical with Galerucella fisskollis 

 Thoms. which is an Aulacophora and agrees with the description of Karsch. Xeither 

 of the two authors mention any sexual characters which is of importance in this 

 genus. The species has sometimes a black spot at the vertex of the head and another 

 at the middle of the thorax which as often is absent. In a specimen from Gaboon 

 in my collection the thorax has two anterior spots and the elytral bands are connected 

 at the suture and at the lateral margin. The male has the ventral last segment as 

 usual trilobate with the middle lobe slightly concave. Specimens are also b(!fore 

 me from Kuilu. I give here the description of an almost entirely similarly coloured 

 species oi Hyperacantha. 



Hyperacantha pectoralis sp. nov. 



Fulvous, the labrnm, breast and the legs black, thorax nearly impnnctate, 

 elytra very finely and closely punctured, a deeply dentate transverse liand at the 

 base, another below the middle surrounding a flavons round spot black. 



$. Elytra with a flavons tubercle at the suture near the apex, tlie last ventral 

 segment incised at each side. 



Length 3 lines. 



This sjiecies may be separated from Aularophorn fisstcoUis Thoms. by the 

 appendicnlate not bifid claws and by the elytral tubercle which is absent in the other 



