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Rhodesia, found by Mr. Neave between Luwingu and the mouth of the 

 Chambezi River, has been detected in the Oxford Museum*. Descriptions 

 of the Fijian forms, the first to be received from those islands, are now 

 given. 



Scirtes natovensis, n. sp. 



Oval, rather broad, robust, shining, finely pubescent; fusco-testaceous or 

 reddish-brown, the head and prothorax piceous, the sides of the latter rather 

 broadly aud sharply, the antennae, and an indeterminate humeral patch, 

 testaceous, the legs obscure testaceous ; very closely finely, the elytra more 

 strongly, punctate. Head very broad; antennae slender, long, joints 2 and 3 

 sh/^rt, equal in length. Prothorax rapidly narrowed from the base. El}i;ra 

 without trace of grooves on the disc, the margins very narrowly reflexed. 

 Posterior femora extremely broad ; upper posterior tibial spur rather slender, 

 about three times the length of the feebly developed lower spur, the upper one 

 much shorter than the first tarsal joint. 



Length 3 -SI-, breadth 2yV i^di. 



Hah. Fiji, Natova (iB. Veitch: iv.l918). 



Two specimens in fairly good condition, others rendered useless by 

 pinning. Near the variable, widely distributed 8. sericetis Waterh. 

 (? :=canescens Motsch.), the type of which was from Siam, differing 

 from it in the sharply defined pale margins to the prothorax and the 

 feebly developed lower spur to the posterior tibiae. 



Scirtes veitchi, n. sp. 



Oblong oval, somewhat depressed, shining, iinely pubescent; black, the 

 two basal joints of the antennae, the sides of the prothorax, knees, tarsi, and 

 tips of the tibiae, rufescent or testaceous ; closely, minutely, the elytra more 

 strongly, punctate. Antennae moderately long, slender, joint 3 very small. 

 Elytra without trace of grooves, narrowly margined. Posterior femora broad, 

 the tibiae moderately dilated, the spurs rather slender, the lower one short. 



Length 2|, breadth 1^ mm. 



Hah. Fiji, Natova {B. Veitch : lO.i.1918). 



One specimen, in good condition, with the posterior tibial spurs of 

 the right leg connate at the base. Near ^S*. nigricans Waterh., fi-om 

 China, and 8. consohriims Lewis, from Japan, but less convex, the 

 antennae black (joints 1 and 2 excepted) ; the lateral margins of the 

 prothorax red, the elytra more strongly punctured. 



Horsell. 



December 1918. 



* Two more specimens from Entebbe have just been handed over to me by Dr. Guy Marshall, 

 thefle having the elytral ridges almost obsolete, and this character may therefore apply to <J only, 

 the type bemg ? , 



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