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Head broad, distinctl}' punctiircd, the vcrtex with a short 

 central groove, lower portion of the face flavous, the frontal 

 elevations transverse, aniennae extending to the middle of the 

 elytra, black, the basal Joint flavous, third Joint double the length 

 of the second but much shorter than the fourth, terminal joints 

 shorter; thorax transverse, subquadrate, the sides nearly straight, 

 very slightly widened froni (he base to the apex, the disc finely 

 and closely punctured. reddish fulvous, scutellum broad, triangulär, 

 flavous- elytra scai-cely wider at the base than the thorax, niore 

 strongly punctui-ed than the lattei-, the interstices slightly rugose, 

 the entire disc bluish-black, in shape of a longitudinal band, 

 the margins flavous, the sutuial and apical ones rather niore 

 broadly so; below and the legs flavous, last abdominal segment 

 deeply subquadratel}^ concave-emarginate, the extreme apex of 

 the tibiae and the tarsi piceous or black, claws bifid, 



Hab. East Afriea. 



It is probable that the fou'- specimens before nie all reprcsent 

 the female sex on account of the structure of the last abdominal 

 segment. 



Laetana violaceipennis sp. n.' 



Flavous, the antennae. the legs and the breast black, thorax 

 finel}^ punctured, obsoletely sulcate at the base, elytra violaceous 

 blue, very closely and finely punctured. 



Length 8—9 mill. 



Fein. Head impunctate, flavous, the clypeus strongly tri- 

 angularly thickened, antennae extending to about the middle of 

 the elytra, black, the lower two joints flavous, the third and 

 the following five joints slightly dilated, terminal joints slender; 

 thorax subquadrate, one half broader than long, the sides slightly 

 constricted at the base, rounded at the middle, the surface ob- 

 soletely transversely sulcate near the base, very finely and closely 

 punctured, flavous, somewhat flattened, scutellum flavous; elytra 

 much broader at the base than the thorax, elongate, the apex 



Rtott. entomol. Zeit. 1903. 



