1916.] 271 



Var. Auteuual joints 1-10, tips of the maudibles, knees, tibiae, 

 and tarsi to near the apex, black. ( c? •) 



Hah. : E. Africa, Mlanje in Nyasalaud (S. A. Neave: 7.xi.l913). 



Seven specimens seen, including the type and variety. Scraptia 

 poiiilloni Pic, fi-om Dahomey, seems to be a nearly allied species. 



2. — Biophida nigrolimbata. 



Scraptia nigrolimhata Pic, Bull. Mus. Paris, xiii, p. 255 (1907)^ 



Hah. : E. Africa, Valley of Ngusi River in Unyoro, and Buamba 

 Forest, in the Semliki Valey, both in Uganda (S. A. Neave), Eabai 

 (K. 8. A. Rogers), Lesammise, Eendile [type of Pic]. 



Three females in the Museum are referred to this species. They 

 are smaller, less elongate, and less robust than B. nnicolor, and have 

 the sides of the elytra black, and the third antennal joint much 

 shorter than the fourth. 



3. — Biophida Jlavida, n. sp. 



Elongate, rather broad, somewhat robust, flattened above, dull, finely 

 pubescent; flavous (the eyes and the tips of the mandibles excepted), the 

 antennal joints 4r-ll slightly darker than 1-3 ; densely, very finely, the elytra a 

 little more coarselj', punctate, the narrow interspaces on the latter alutaceous 

 Head broad, transverse, well developed behind the eyes, the latter large, 

 separated by about their own width as seen from above, the frontal suture 

 almost obsolete ; mandibles short, crenulate within, imemarginate at tip ; apical 

 joint of maxillary palpi moderately large, seciu-iform, that of the labial pair 

 very broad ; antennae long, rather slender, filiform, joint 2 very short, 3 twice 

 as long as 2 and shorter than 4, -1—11 elongate. Prothorax ti-ansverse, large, 

 semi-circular, very feebly siniiate at the base, the two basal foveae small. 

 Elytra long, a little wider than the prothorax, sub-parallel in their basal half, 

 truncate at the tip. Legs rather stoiit, moderately long, penultimate joint of 

 each tarsus lobed and comparatively loug, the basal joint of the posterior pair 

 not very much longer than the rest united, the claws appendiculate. Length 

 5, breadth If mm. ( ,^ $ ) 



Hah.: E. Africa, Arusha (/. F. Jackson). 



One specimen in good condition, but posKsibly somewhat immature, 

 received by the Museum in 1887. Narrower and much smaller than 

 B. unicolor and B. nigrolimhata, the elytra sub-parallel, the puncturing 

 not so coarse. Scraptia rothschildi Pic, from Mt. Nyro, E. Africa, 

 is evidently a very similar insect, with three rather deep basal foveae 

 on the prothorax. 



