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SOME NEW COLEOPTERA COLLECTED BY REV. HENRI 

 A. JUNOD AT SHILOUVANE, NEAR LEYDSUORP, IN 

 THE TRANSVAAL. 



Bt L. PERINGUEY, south AFRICAN MUSEUM. 



CICIUDELIDAE. 



1. Dromica (Cosmema) concinna spec. nov. 



c? ? . Very dark blue, occasionally bine-Mack ou flie up]ierside, but with tlie 

 sides of the head, prothorax, elytra, the whole nudersidc, and the legs bright 

 dark bine ; the knees and the greater jiart of the anterior tibiae are rufesceut, 

 and the first four basal segments of the filiform antennae greenish. The yellowish 

 white labrnm has a basal transverse iufuscate band and a narrow apical margin 

 of the same colour in the mule, and also occasionally in the female ; but the 

 latter has normally a broad longitudinal fuscous baud reaching from base to 

 apex. The head and neck are finely plicate. The narrow prothorax is nearly 

 cylindrical, one-third longer than broad at its widest part in both sexes, strongly 

 constricted at each end, convex, finely and closely plicate, and with a fine 

 impressed longitudinal median line. Elytra of 7nale elongated and not much 

 ampliated past the middle where they are twice as broad as at the base ; 

 whereas in the female they are twice as broad there, briefly angular at the 

 sntural angle, and mure strongly so at the outer in the m(de, while in the female 

 these two angles are slightl}' less acute than in the male ; the anterior part of 

 the elytra is covered with somewhat deep round jmnctures, separated in both 

 sexes by a nearly smooth interval almost equal in width to their diameter. These 

 punctures grow gradually shallower and smaller from the median part to the 

 apex ; the f'lnale only has a small narrow depression along the suture near 

 the base, and both sexes have on each side a supra-marginal median elongated 

 patch, and a longer one at a short distance from the apex. 



Length, 13 to 15 mm. ; width, 3 to 4^ mm.* 



This species belongs to the same group as JK {Cosmema) transitoriu Per., 

 with a long narrow cylindrical neck ; the punctures of the elytra, especially 

 on the anterior part, are not rugose even in the male. 



2. Dromica (Cosmema) specialis spec. nov. 



S . Black, shining on the upperside, sides of head, thorax, margin of elytra, and 

 underside dark cyaneous blue, legs bluish green, base of tibiae rufescent. Antennae 

 with the fifth and sixth segments narrowly dilated, seventh and eighth very 

 little ampliated. Labrum whitish, with the base broadly and the anterior 



* This species was discovered by me in the Low I'ountry of Pietersburg, not tar from Leydsdorp, 

 near the Swiss Mission Station of Shilouvane, whicli is about 2000 tt. above the sea-level, on the lower 

 slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains. It is living in company with C. xexnaoulala, but is much 

 rarer.— Hbnbi A. Junod. 



