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Apogonia improba, n. spec. 



Female : Size and shape of the preceding species, but dark bi'onze 

 and very shiny ; the shape and sculpture are the same, but the 

 punctures on the elytra are somewhat finer, and the intervals quite 

 smooth and plane. 



I have seen only one female example. It is quite possible that 

 the male has more characteristic differences. 



Length 9£ mm. ; width oi mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Apogonia mashona, n. spec. 



Testaceous-red, turning to bronze-green, on the elytra ; in shape it 

 closely resembles A. curtula and A. improba, but it is at once 

 distinguished by the constantly smaller size, and the much deeper 

 and coarser punctures on the upper part, and also by the shape of 

 the clypeus which is not so sharply diagonally narrowed laterally 

 nor so truncate in front in the male, and not at all sinuate there in 

 the female ; the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are only 

 slightly dilated. 



Length 1-1\ mm. ; width 4-44/ mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe ; Umtali, Mazoe). 



Apogonia ovata, Fahr., 



Plate XL VI., fig. 17. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 94. 



Ceratogonia kolbei, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entoml. Zeitsch., 1899, p. 141. 



Chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge, club of 

 antennae flavescent ; head and prothorax covered with fine, although 

 deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in 

 width to their own diameter; scutellum finely but not densely 

 punctate ; elytra with the humeral angles sharp and Blightly pro- 

 jecting beyond the rounded base of the prothorax, covered with 

 deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and having on each 

 elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row 

 of punctures, suture plainly raised; underside coarsely punctate; 

 anterior tibia 1 bi-dentate; in the male the clypeus is as long as the 

 head, strongly aculeate laterally, and the apical part is deeply 

 incised, the two angles of the incision being remarkably sharp, the 

 three basal joints of all the tarsi are very much dilated, the second 

 one especially, and provided underneath with a somewhat flat brush 

 of flavescent hairs; io the female, the clypeus, which is not as long 



