TLATYNASPIS. 197 



punctulata necnon (saltern in prothorace elytrorumque limbo) ruIj- 

 tilissime pubescens, nigra, prothoracis lateribus elytrorumque 

 margine laterali ab humeris usque ad medium et maculis duabus 

 magnis subconfluentibus in singulis positis, rufo testaccis ; elytris 

 sat grosse m'arginatis, rotundatioribus, ad humeros rotundatos 

 prothorace parum latioribus." lh lin. 



" Habitat Canariam Grandem, in arenosis ad Maspalomas 

 capta." 



Platynaspis quadriplagiata.* 



EpUachna k-plagiata, Woll. Cat. Can. Col. p. 425. 



"E. nitida oculo fortissime armato minutissime et parce punctu- 

 lata necnon (saltern in prothorace elytrorumque limbo) subtilissime 

 pnbescens, rufo-testacea, capite, prothoracis disco (linea media 

 interdum excepta) elytrorumque marginibus angustissimis et 

 maculis parvis duabus in singulis positis plus minus nigrescen- 

 tioribus : elytris tenuiter marginatis, ad humeros rotundatos latis, 

 prothorace multo latioribus. Long, coi'p. lin 1| — 1J. 



"Habitat in aridis arenosis Fuerteventurse, rarissima." 



Platynaspis capicola, sp. n. 



Covered with a manifest gray pubescence, tolerably strongly 

 punctate, black ; thorax with the anterior angles, elytra with 2 

 spots, fulvous (1 dorsal, tolerably large, 1 smaller, subapical). L. 1 

 lin. Graham's Town. 



Thorax truncate before the scutellum, but less so than in 

 P. Solieri; the 2 spots are sometimes connected by a line. 



Platynaspis Saundersii, sp. n. 



Black, head fulvous, thorax with the anterior angles fulvous ; 

 elytra flavo-testaceous, suture black (the black colour largely 

 dilated behind the scutellum), and with 4 black spots (1 in the 

 callus, 1 linear, at the external margin, 1 rather large, close to the 

 suture behind the middle, 1 a little before the apex). L. 1 lin. 

 India (Saunders). 



Thorax hardly Insinuate behind, punctuation not strong. 



Platynaspis Higginsii, sp. n. 



Nigro-piceous, head, thorax at the sides, elytra each with 

 4 spots, yellow ; 2 in a transverse series a little before the middle 

 (1 at the external margin, 1 close to the suture), 2 near the apex, 

 placed obliquely, rather approximated. L. 1 lin. Gold Coast. 



Platynaspis stictica, sp. n. 



Black, clypeus red, disc black ; thorax with the sides broadly 



