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incrassatis at apicalibus quatuor autem reliquis crassioribus, nigrae 

 at articulis quinque ultimis fulvescentibus ; caput punctatum pilis 

 nonnulis brevibus albis ; prothorax antice attenuatus, deinde trans- 

 versus, deplanatus, in medio late, iitrinque minus perspicue longi- 

 tudinaliter impressus, rude punctatus pube grisea sparse indutus, ad 

 latera longe quinque spinosus, spinis quatuor anticis e pedunculo 

 manifesto communi productis, longitudine fere asqualibus, spina 

 posticali quinta libera, anterioribus graciliore brevioreque, extrorsum 

 porrecta ; scutellum vix perspicuum, basi punctulatum ; elytra elon- 

 gata, angustiucula, prothorace nitidiora, profunde lateque seriato 

 punctata, glabra, spinis nigro seneis, longis, marginalibus vix 

 brevioribus. 



Long. 5^ mm. ; lat. li mm. 



Will be easily recognised from among its South African congeners 

 by the metallic sheen of the elytra. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Gen. DOECATISPA Weise. 



DORCATISPA EXTEEMA, Per., 



Ann. S. Afric. Mus. i., 1898, p. 117. 



Gestro (Ann. Mus. Civic. Hist. Nat. Genov. vol. xhi., 1906) places 

 Doscatispa (Hispella) extrema, Pering., in synonymy with D. bellicosa, 

 Guer. ; and attributes to this species an almost entire African range. 

 Gestro is, however, mistaken on that point. The typical D. bellicosa, 

 a duly identified specimen of which he very kindly sent me, differs 

 from D. extrema in the more shiny surface and the total absence on 

 the discoidal part of the prothorax of the two ovate rounded, 

 smooth, raised areas, which are so conspicuous a feature of 

 D. bellicosa. D. extrema must on these accounts be considered a 

 valid species. 



Gen. PSEUDISPELLA, Kraatz. 



PSEUDISPELLA CONSOBRINA, n. Sp. 



Nigra, elytris cyaneis, nitidis ; capitis apice rugose punctato ; 

 antennae elytrorum humeros attingentes, crassae, articulis 2-6 

 utrinque angulatis, reliquiis coartatis, 7° latitudine nonnihil longiore, 

 8-10 fere transversis, ultimo acuminato, spina basali articuli primi 

 longa ; prothorax antice nonnihil attenuatus, dein transversus, 

 deplanatus, in medio baud canaliculatus, in disco utrinque nonnihil 

 elevatus autem baud areolatus, conferte rugoseque punctatus, pube 



