24 Ml". M, Jacoby's Bescri^Jtions of Hew Genera and 



epipleurte in the way the author demands it for his genus, 

 as these parts are concave anteriorly and do not gradually 

 recede within, nor are the claws divided at the point only. 



Phygasia harheri, sj). n. 



Oblong-ovate, flavous, the head fulvous, antennas (the basal joints 

 excepted) and legs black, extreme base of the femora flavous, thorax 

 impunctate, with deep basal sulcus ; elytra finely and irregularly 

 punctured. Length 3 millim. 



Head impunctate, pale fulvous, frontal tubercles broad and well 

 developed, clypeus convex, labrum piceous, antennse rather short 

 and robust, the lower tliree or four joints flavous, basal joint generally 

 black above, the fourth and following joints entirely of tliat colour, 

 somewhat triangularly widened and of equal length, not longer than 

 the basal joint ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the lateral 

 margins strongly rounded at the middle, the disc convex, with a 

 deep basal sulcus bounded at the sides by a perpendicular groove, 

 impunctate, flavous ; elytra oblong, very finely and closely punctured, 

 flavous ; the apical two-thirds of the femora and the legs black. 



Hah. Upper Tonga at {C. Barker). 

 Allied to P. hrunnea, Jac, from Africa, but smaller and 

 less convex, jJale flavous and the legs of different coloration, 



Phygasia hicolorata, sp. n. 



Black, the basal joints of the antennae flavous, thorax minutely 

 j)unctured, elytra flavous, very finely and closely punctate, the 

 suture and the apex black. Length 3J millim. 



Head impunctate, black, frontal tubercles broad, strongly raised, 

 antenn;e long and rather slender, black, the lower five joints and the 

 base of the sixth, flavous, basal joint black above, third and following 

 joints equal, widened at the apex ; thorax about onedialf broader 

 than long, the sides strongly rounded, the surface convex, very 

 minutely punctured, black, shining, basal sulcus deep, scutellum 

 broadly rounded at the apex, black ; elytra elongate, jjointed, very 

 closely, rather strongly and irregularly punctured, dark flavous, the 

 sutural margins, in shape of a gradually narrowed band and the 

 extreme apex of each elytron, black ; below and the legs of the latter 

 colour. 



Hah. Ifafa Mts., Natal {G. BarUr). 

 Of this very distinct little species I received three 

 specimens from Mr. Barker. 



