JACOBY, PIIYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM THE CAMEROONS. 2ol 



Chapuisia basalis sp. ri. 



Testacous, thorax broad, minutely punctured, elytra ex- 

 treinely finely and closely punctured, obscnre testacous, the 

 base broadly, the margins narrowly fulvous, breast and ab- 

 domen obscure fulvous. 



Length 10 mill. 



Of broadly elongate, posteriorly slightly widened shape, 

 the head broad, testaceous, impunctate, eyes large and round, 

 frontal elevations broad, distinct, antennse with slender 

 elongate joints, påle fulvous, the third joint half the 

 length of the fourth one, the lower three joints glabrous, 

 the others pubescent (last three joints broken off), thorax 

 transversely subquadrate, without depressions, testaceous, the 

 sides rounded, with a verv narrow margin, anterior angles 

 thickened, posterior ones oblique, the disc extremely finely 

 and closely punctured, scutellum broad, testaceous, elytra 

 very nearly similarly punctured as the thorax, their epi- 

 pleurse broad, concave at the base, absent below the middle, 

 the disc obscure testaceous, the margins narrowly and the 

 base broadly fulvous, this colour extending upwards to a 

 small extent at the sutural margin at the apex; legs testa- 

 ceous, the intermediate tibise mucronate only, claws appen- 

 diculate, the anterior coxal cavities closed. 



This is the third species of the genus (Paralepta of 

 Chapuis) agreeing in all the structural characters with the 

 type but of a much larger and broader shape. 



Chapuisia Sjöstedti sp. n. 



Plate 10, fig. 7. 



Flavous, the terminal joints of the antennas, the breast 

 and the legs black, thorax and elytra extremely minutely 

 punctured, black. 



Length 10 mill. 



Head minutely punctate, flavous, with a central fovea, 

 clypeus triangulär, antennse with the lower two joints fla- 

 vous, the following six, black, the rest wanting; thorax about 

 one half broader than long, the sides feebly rounded at the 

 middle, the surface rather flattened, flavous, extremely mi- 



