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II. Descriptions of new genera and species of African 

 Halticinse and GalerucinsB. By Martin Jacob y, 

 F.E.S. 



[Read December 6tli, 1905.] 



PLATE III. 



The present paper deals with those species of Halticinic 

 and Gcdcrncino3 which I liave received from time to time 

 from various parts of Africa and are contained in my 

 collection. Although we are only at the commencement 

 of our knowledge of the African fauna, every contribution 

 helps to extend it, and a considerable amount of material 

 has already accumulated and been worked out. It has 

 been found that the African species are by no means so 

 universally distributed in that great continent as was at 

 first supposed ; on the contrary, they seem to be confined 

 to certain areas, each having its special fauna, although of 

 course there are exceptions ; the West African fauna is 

 quite distinct from that of the other portions as is also the 

 South from the Central portion. German East Africa has 

 furnished a large number of new species, well worked out 

 by Herr Weise as far as the Phyiophaga are concerned. 



HALTICIN^. 



Aphthona marsh alii, sp. n. 



Testaceous, tlie terminal joints of the antennte and the scutellum 

 black, the under-side and the posterior femora piceous, head im- 

 punctate, thorax transverse, extremely minutely punctured, elytra 

 very finely and closely punctate. Length 2 millim. 



Head impunctate, of a more fulvous tint than the thorax, with 

 narrow, oblique grooves from the eyes to the clypeus, the latter broad 

 and flat, the labrum black, antenna? rather short, the four or five 

 lower joints flavous, the others black, the second joint thicker and 

 slightly longer than the third and following joint, terminal ones 

 slightly thickened ; thorax about one-half broader than long, the 

 lateral margins nearly straight, forming an oblique angle towards the 

 apex, the disc impunctate, flavous, very shining, scutellum black, 



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