258 Mr. O. B. Janson's Notices of 



punctured and strigose, the disc rather sparsely pubescent, more 

 densely so at the sides ; each with eight impressed white spots, 

 ai-ranged thus, two close together on the third carina before the 

 middle, one close to the suture just behind the middle, one, 

 also sutural, about one-fifth from the apex, three along the 

 lateral margin and one close to the apical sutural angle. 



Pygidivm very finely strigose with rather dense short pul)es- 

 cence. 



Beneath closely strigose, and with dense pubescence at the 

 sides : mesosternal process broad and flat, rounded at the apex, 

 punctured, and with an impressed longitudinal line ; abdomen 

 Avith scattered pinictures in the centre, the penultimate segment 

 closely punctured ; legs punctured and pubescent, anterior tibial 

 with three lateral teeth, the first somewhat obsolete, the second 

 large and prominent, the apical one very long and curved, 

 jiosterior tibia? with the inner a})ical spine large, broad and 

 concave on its outer side, the two basal joints of the tarsi 

 acutely produced on each side. 



Livingstonia, Lake Nyassa. 



A very peculiar species resembling A. vai-iabUis, (i. P. [Macru- 

 ininus spinitarsis, M. Ly.), in the armature of its legs. 



OxytJiyrea Incen,^^ n. sj). 



O. nigra, uitida, thorace lateribus late rufis, vitta marginal! 

 macuHsque tribiis utrinque albis ; elytris la^te viridibus, nitidis- 

 simis, linea marginal! interrupta maculisque ^^l^i^ii^is albis ; 

 pygidio rufo. Long. 10 mm. 



Head rather closely and finely jiunctured, the clypeus very 

 finely punctured in front, impressed on each side, the sides 

 shghtly rounded, the apex elevated on each side, the centre 

 slightly impressed ; shining black ; antennae black with the apex 

 reddish. 



. Thorax very finely and s[)arsely punctured, the punctures 

 coarser and much closer in front, the sides rather prominent in 

 the middle, posterior margin strongly rounded ; bright red, the 

 centre broadly black, shining, a broad, irregular stripe on each 

 side close to the margin, and a longitudinal row of three spots 

 on each side of the disc, impressed and white. 



ScuteUum acute at the apex, impunctate ; shining Ijlack. 



Ehjtra abruptly narrowed behind the shoidders, slightly 

 dilated behind the middle, sulcate on the disc and along the 



