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At once distinguiöhed from the other knowu species of the 

 geiius bj Ihe novmally structured elytra and the coloiir of the 

 antennae, the lauer in P. fava Jac. have the third Joint deeply 

 emarginate at the apex of which in the present insect there is 

 onlj an indication, the last abdominal segment in P. fava is 

 likewise devoid of the sulcation of the median lobe; (he female 

 of (he present species has simple antennae, (hat is, the third 

 Joint is elongale and shaped like the others, the last abdominal 

 Segment is broadly rounded at the apex. 



Monolepta barombiensis ?p. n. 



Below blaek with bluish gloss and elosely pubcscent, head 

 and thorax bluish-black, impnnctate, elytra tlavons, inipunctate. 



Leng(h 7 mill. 



Of very elongate shape, (he head impunetate, blnish blaek, 

 with a central fovea, eyes very large, frontal felevations obliquely 

 (rigona(e, divided bv a deej) groove, olypens (riangnlarly raised, 

 an(ennae ex(ending beyond (he niiddle of the elytra, blaek, (he 

 second and (hird Joint small, the la((er double the length of (he 

 preceding one, (he fourdi and following join(s nearly equal, (er- 

 minal Joint long and slender; thorax transverse, narrowed an- 

 teriorly, the sides slighdy rounded, \\\i\\ a narrow retlexed margin, 

 pos(orior margin rounded, (he stu'face iinpunc(a(e ond sliining, 

 bhiish blaek, .'■cutclluni (i-iangular. blaek; ely(ra very elimgate, 

 smooth and impunc(ate, Ihivous, shining. (heir epipleurae indistinct 

 below the middle; below bhiish, clodied wi(h long greyish 

 pubescence; legs slender, (ibiae niucrona(e, the meta(arsus of (he 

 posterior legs very long; prosternum extremely nariow, anterior 

 cavi(ies elosed. 



A somewliat abbeirant Monolepta on accoun( of Ks large 

 and elongate shape, bul (juKe (y|)ioal in rcgard (o 8(ruc(ure. 



Monolepta opulenta sj). n. 

 VerA' convex and judutcd |)(>s((.'rieirly, black, basal joinls of 

 the antennae and the h'gs ihnous, lu-ad and thorax impunc(a(e, 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1903. 



