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SOME NEW INJURIOUS PHYTOPHAGA FROM AFRICA. 



By G. E. Bryant, 

 Eiiloiiiological Assistant, Imperial Bureau of Entomologv. 

 Family Crioceridae. 

 Crioceris viridissima, sp. n. (fig. 1). 



Subcylindrical, brilliant metallic green to coppery green, with legs and three 

 last ventral segments fulvous, and a large fulvous spot on vertex of head. 

 Leiigt/i, 6 mm. • 



Head about as broad as prothorax, brilliant metalUc green, with scattered 

 punctures and a large fulvous patch on vertex, sulcate between the eyes on apical 

 half of fulvous patch. Antennae stout, with first four joints with a slight metallic 

 tinge, the seven apical joints dull black. Prothorax brilliant metallic green, slightly 

 longer than broad, sides slightly rounded, strongly punctate, with a fovea at middle 

 near base. Scutellum triangular, green. Elytra brilliant metalhc green, punctate- 

 striate, slightly shagreened, more than twice as long as broad, parallel-sided and 

 rounded at apex, broader than base of prothorax. Legs fulvous, anterior pair in 

 the ^ with the tibiae more bent inwards than in $. Underside with sternum metallic 

 green, rugosely punctm-ed ; ventral segments of abdomen with the first two metallic 

 green, apical segments fulvous, sometimes showing traces of metallic green, and 

 apical margin of second fulvous, with rather long scattered pubescence on all the 

 segments. 



Kenya Colony: Nakuru, 4.xi.l918, 7 specimens (5. Colclough); Migori Valley, 

 S. Kavirondo, 4,200 ft., v.1911, 1 specimen (5. A. Neave). 



Specimens were forwarded by Mr. T. J. Anderson, Chief of Division of Entomology, 

 Kenya Colony, with the information that they were attacking asparagus. 



This new species is a true Crioceris, approaching in structure more nearl}-- to 

 European forms such as C. M-piinctata, Scop., than any African species at present 

 described. It is probably most nearly allied to C. nigropnnctata, Lacord., from 

 South Africa, amongst the African species. 



Family Halticidae. 



Cercyonia citri, sp. n. (fig. 2). 



Elliptical, convex, black or bluish-black, nitid ; head and thorax finely punctured ; 

 elytra bluish-black, with a fulvous patch on basal half of each, punctate-striate ; 

 underside fulvous, legs darker. Length, 4-5 mm. 



Head black, finely punctured, with two fulvous spots at base touching anterior 

 margin of thorax. Antennae inserted wide apart near the inner circumference of 

 the eyes, reaching just beyond base of thorax, first four joints fulvous, joint 1 equal 

 to 2 and 3 combined, 5-10 more triangular, with apical half of each darker, apical 

 joint acuminate. Prothorax black, finely and evenly punctured, more than twice 

 as broad as long, with sides margined (margin in some fulvous) and narrowed towards 

 apex ; anterior angles produced and acute, posterior margin broadly produced at 

 the middle. Scutellum triangular, black (in some reddish). Elytra bluish-black, 

 very little broader than base of thorax, about three times as long as thorax, sub- 

 cylindrical and narrowed posteriorly ; punctate-striate, more feebl}/ towards apex, 



