Species of African Halticinsa and Galcrucinse. 23 



Head minutely granulate, opaque, without frontal elevations and 

 with an oblique ridge from the eyes to the clypeus, the latter broad, 

 separating the antennae rather widely, antennae with scarcely 

 thickened terminal joints, flavous, the last two or three joints 

 blackish, the second and third joint equal, slightly smaller than the 

 following joints ; thorax rather more than one-half broader than 

 long, the angles distinct, the sides very narrowly margined, posterior 

 margin not accompanied by an impi'essed line,the surface dull, opaque, 

 black, very closely and strongly punctured, the punctures round and 

 deep ; elytra not transversely depressed below the base, somewhat 

 flattened, the punctuation a little stronger than that of the thorax 

 and arranged in very close rows, the interstices furnished with very 

 short grey hairs, only visible under a powerful lens ; metasternum 

 very long, finely punctured. 



Hob. DuNBRODY, Cape Colouy {Bev. O'Ncil). 

 In the male insect the posterior femora are much more 

 strongly incrassate than in the other sex. 



Weiseana, gen. n. 



Elongate, finely pubescent, antennte with short joints ; thorax 

 transverse and short, the sides and the posterior angles rounded, the 

 disc with several depressions, scutellura broad, elytra finely pu- 

 bescent, the epipleurse indistinct below the middle, legs robust, the 

 tibiae unarmed, the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the 

 following two joints together, claws appendiculate, the inner tooth 

 acute ; prosternum nearly invisible between the highly raised coxae, 

 the anterior cavities closed. 



Tyiic. Weiseana harkeri, Jac. (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1903, p. 16). 



By an unfortimate oversight, the description of the 

 genus in which I have placed this species was omitted at 

 the time ; the insect has entirely the appearance and 

 coloration of a species of Galerucella with which it has also 

 most of the structural characters in common, but the 

 distinctly thickened posterior femora compels the inclusion 

 of the species in the Halticinic. The colour of the upper 

 surface is a dull and opaque testaceous, the elytra have the 

 margins narrowly black and the thorax shows three more 

 or less fuscous spots placed within an equal number of 

 depressions. I would have referred this species without 

 nuich doubt to Weise's genus Homicldoda, Wiegm. Arcli. 

 1002, p. 165), but I cannot see the structure of the elytral 



