534 MARTIN JACOBT 



Length 8 millim. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, the vertex with a distinct purplish 

 gloss, frontal elevation strongly raised and broad, nearly con- 

 tiguous, clypeus triangular, in shape of ridges, palpi piceous, 

 moderately robust, antennae extending nearly to the apex of 

 the elytra, black, the second joint extremely small, moniliform, 

 the third robust, very slightly longer thnn the following joints, 

 these curved, the inner edge of each, strongly convex, the outer 

 one, slightly concave; thorax subquadrate, scarcely twice as broad 

 as long , the sides constricted at the base , the angles distinct , 

 the disc with two small foveae, impunctate, coloured like the 

 head, scutellum piceous, elytra elongate and parallel, wider at 

 the base than the thorax, metallic green, closely and finely 

 punctured, their epipleurae continued below the middle, below 

 and the legs fulvous, the tibiae more or less and the tarsi black, 

 the former unarmed, the metatarsus of the posterior legs as 

 long as the following joints together, claws appendiculate , the 

 abdomen purplish, the last segment with the median lobe de- 

 pressed, the anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hah. Dai Badditu a Dime, May -July 1896. 



The two specimens obtained are both males which are distin- 

 guished by the structure of the antennae which is more marked 

 than in some of the allied forms, in the female, the same organs 

 are probably simple. 



I have dedicated this species to the other surviving member 

 of the expedition Lieutenant Citerni. 



Ptudolplxia, gen. nov. (Galeruoinae). 



Shape of Luperas, head broad, palpi and antennae filiform, 

 thorax transverse, subquadrate, the angles not prominent, elytra 

 elongate, the punctuation obsolete, their epipleurae very narrow 

 belcw the middle, legs slender, the tibiae mucronate, the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following joints to- 

 gether, claws simple, presternum extremely narrow, the anterior 

 coxal cavities closed. 



