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admodum induta ; corpus subtus, pedes tarsique pube grisea appressa 

 dense vestita, femoribus posticis modice ampliatis. 



Long. 8 mm. ; lat. 3 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo). Eev. F. C. Kolbe. 



Sub-Family CLYTHRIN^. 



Gen. LACHN^A, Lacord. 



LACHNiEA DAMARINA, n. Sp. 



Curtula, supra glabra, nigra, prothorace fascia antica strictura 

 transversa terminata flavida notato ; elytris rufo-flavidis fasciis 

 duabus nigris latis, prima ante medium ad suturam interrupta, 

 lateraliter humeros versus producta, altera pone medium sita, 

 communi marginem iateralem attingente, vix sinuata, nigro-cseruleis 

 ornatis ; antennis nigris articulis basalibus tribus flavidis ; caput 

 latum, punctulatum, in f route quadrifariam impressum ; prothorax 

 longitudine duplo latior, antice nonnihil lateraliter attenuatus, basi 

 apice tertio latior, basi ipsa utrinque profunde sinuata, supra con- 

 vexiusculus, parte antica a postica ante medium canale transverso 

 profunde divisa, ilia medio excepto vix punctulata, hac praesertim 

 ad medium crebre profundeque irregulariter ad latera minus dense 

 punctata ; scutellum vix punctatum ; elytra antice prothorace latiora 

 dein retrorsum nonnihil gradatim attenuata, longe pone humeros 

 sinuata, supra convexa, ab humeros fere ad quintam partem longi- 

 tudinis lateraliter utrinque late depressa, in dorso baud postice 

 autem utrinque manifeste quadi-ifariam costata sutura ubi elevata, 

 apice ipso declivo baud punctato, superficie tota crebre profundeque 

 punctata, punctis intervallo nonnihil angustiore divisis ; corpore 

 subtus pedibusque pube griseo sericea dense obtectis. 



Long. 9^ mm. ; lat. 4^ mm. 



Hah. Northern Damaraland. W. A. Eriksson. 



Sub-Family HISPIN^. 



Gen. LEPTISPA, Bal 



Key to the South African Species. 

 A-. Elytra cyaneous or cyaneous-black. 



B=. Anterior angles of the prothorax rounded ; frontal part of head 

 grooved longitudinally. 



