ij, January, 



There is a long series of this species iu the British Museum, 

 including one from Madagascar (Coijuerel, ex coll. F. Bates) la])elled 

 " nubaxillaris, type," many from Natal (the locality given by Seidlitz), 

 and several captured by Mr. Neave in the Serenje district of N.E 

 Rhodesia. The quadrimaculate variety is represented by a single 

 example from Natal, and another from Kashitu, received wdtli others 

 of the normal form. In this insect the elytra are finely pvmctate- 

 striate, the interstices flat and closely punctate. The prothorax is in 

 great part rufescent in one of the specimens of the 4-spotted variety. 

 77. cuneatuff Fairm., from the French Congo, must be a very nearly 

 allied form. 



' 2. — Tlustro'pMnns mibstriahis. 



Eucinetus suhstriatus Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1869, p. 224. 



Eustrophus s^ubsfriahis Fairm., o|). cit., 1886, p. 39 ; Champ., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii, p. 65 (1898;. 



Hub.: Madagascar (Coquerel, Mocqtterys). 



There are five specimens of this species in the British Museum, 

 including one labelled " type," taken by Coquerel ; the others were 

 received from M. Mocquerys in 1899. These latter have a more or 

 less distinct, oblong (not transverse), rufous or rufo-testaceous sub- 

 humeral spot, wanting in the type and only just indicated in one of 

 those captured by Mocquerys. The rather coarsely punctate-striate 

 elytra separates E. .mbstriatus from the very closely allied, widely 

 distributed, E. siibaxillaris, of which it may be an extreme form. E. 

 punctolineahis Fairm., is probably the same species, the presence of a 

 humeral spot being of no value as a specific character. 



3. — Eustrophinua circumcindus, n. sp. 



Oblon<? oval, much narrowed posteriorly, shining ; nio-ro-pieeoiis or black, 

 the anterior half of the prothorax indeterminately rufovis, the antennae with 

 joints 1-4 and the tip of 11, and the elytra with the margins and base rather 

 broadly, and the suture wholly or in part, testaceous, the legs and under surface 

 piceous or brown, the tarsi paler than the tibiae ; thickly clothed with coarse 

 pubescence. Head small ; eyes approximate ; antennae rather stout, joints 7-10 

 transverse. Prothorax densely, finely punctate, with shallow coarsely punctured 

 basal foveae. Elytra long, rapidly narrowed from near the base, conspicuously 

 striato-punctate, the interstices flat and closely punctate, the epipleura ex- 

 cavate. Beneath densely punctate. Prosternal process narrow, tinnotched at 

 tip. Mesosternal keel very prominent. Length 6-6^, breadth 2f-3 mm. 



Hob.: N.E. Ehodesia, Serenje district, alt. 4,500 feet (Neave: 

 xii.07), Kashitu (DoJbnan: xii.l4). 



