28 Mr. M. Jacoby's Descriptions of Neiu Genera and 



length of the elytra, where it curves inwards and forms another 

 band which does not extend to the suture, this band is of irregular 

 shape and suddenly strongly narrowed below the shoulders ; the 

 last abdominal segment trilobate, the median lobe broader than long, 

 flat ; tibiae all armed with a small spine, their lower half and the 

 tarsi black, claws appendiculate. 



Hah. Umhlali Beach {C. Barker). Umkomaas 

 Mounts, Natal {G. Marshall). 



Of this species there are four female specimens before 

 me, which cannot be mistaken for any other of the genus, 

 on account of their short and convex shape in connection 

 with the pattern of the elytra; this comes more near 

 H. ahdominalis, Jac. (ncc Duvivier) (a species not mentioned 

 in Weise's list Deut. E. Zeit. 1903, and described in the 

 Entomologist for 1891) than any other; but that species 

 is of larger size, broader and less convex, the elytra are 

 fulvous and entirely margined with black, the transverse 

 band is of regular shape and extends to the suture, and 

 the last abdominal segment of the female is entire (the 

 male is likewise unknown). Of the present insect, pro- 

 bably more varieties will become known in time; in a single 

 specimen, the breast and the abdomen are more or less 

 black ; in the var. a. the extreme basal margin of the elytra 

 is black only, the lower band is absent and replaced by a 

 small spot, while in ixcr. h. the elytra are entirely without 

 markings. 



Hy-pcracantha fiavodorsata, Fairm. 



Weise looks upon this species as a variety of H. jlavo- 

 nigra, Thorns. (Deut. E. Zeit. 1903, 87), which does not 

 seem to me to be correct, since Thomson's species has deep 

 black elytral markings and has been described from the 

 interior of Africa, while Fairmaire says that his species has 

 the elytra, " atro-cseruleis " with the markings different, 

 and that it is found in Madagascar ; this island has very 

 few species indeed in common with Africa. 



Hyper, fenestrata, Chap. The male of this species has 

 near the suture below the middle of each elytron a whitish 

 tubercle, as Weise has rightly presumed, this tubercle is of 

 conical shape and its base is deeply hollowed out. 



H. adusta, Weise. The author now looks upon his species 

 as a variety of //. hitubercidata, Fab. (Deut. E. Zeit. 1903), 

 but all the specimens I have seen of Fabricius' insect have 



