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G. E. BRYANT. 



with the intervals finely punctured ; a fulvous patch on each extending from 

 below shoulder to middle, not touching suture or lateral margin. Legs variable, 

 fulvous to almost black, with femora darker ; posterior pair incrassate ; a small 

 spine at apex of hind tibiae. Underside fulvous ; sternum strongly punctured ; 

 lirst ventral segment more strongly punctured, the rest with scattered punctures 

 and slightly pulDescent. 



Male with last ventral segment more sinuate. 



Easily distinguished from C. nigricolHs, Jac, by its larger size and markings, 

 which are constant in over 200 specimens before me. 



Gold Coast : Aburi, 8.xi.l916 (Tf. H. Patterson) ; Ojesu, Ashanti {A. E. Evans). 

 Reported by Mr. W. H. Patterson, Government Entomologist, Gold Coast, as 

 a serious pest of all young citrus plants, and widely distributed in the Colony. 



Argopistes oleae, sp. n. (tig. 3). 



Rounded, convex ; head and prothorax black, finely punctured ; elvtra yellow, 

 with suture and lateral margins black, each with a black vitta ; underside fulvous. 

 Length, 4-50 mm. 



Head nearly hidden in the prothorax, from base to between eyes black, finely 

 punctured, front and clypeus flavous. Antennae inserted close together, first four 

 joints flavous, first joint very long and nearly equal to the three following together, 



Fig. 1. Crioceris 

 viridissima, sp. n. 



Fig. 2. Cercyonia citri, sp. n.; 

 a, lateral view. 



Fi'. 



3. Argopistes oleae, sp. n. 

 a, apex of hind tibia. 



last seven joints slightly broader and fuscous. Prothorax strongly transverse, black, 

 finelv punctured, about three times as broad as long ; sides obliquely converging 

 and shghtly rounded from base to apex, and deflexed ; anterior angles obtuse and 

 fulvous, posterior margin sinuate. Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra yellow, 

 with sutural borders and lateral margins black, each wdth a black vitta extending 

 almost from base to apex ; finely punctured, longer than broad. Legs : front and 

 intermediate pairs flavous, hind pair with the femora strongly incrassate, black 

 with basal part flavous, their tibiae fulvous, broadly dilated, and deeply sulcate, 

 dentate and terminated by two spurs (fig. 3, a) ; posterior tarsi with first joint longer 

 than those of the front and middle pairs. Underside fulvous ; ventral segments 

 strongly punctured, with apical segment longer than the two preceding. 



Cape PRoyiNCE : 3 5$, Cape Town, 9.iii.l918. 



The larvae are recorded by the Division of Entomology, Pretoria, as mining in 

 the leaves of olive trees. 



This species is a remarkable mimic of the African CoccineUid genera, Dysis and 

 Ale si a. 



