Species of African Halticin[& and Galcrucinm. 29 



testaceous elytra with the base and lateral margins more 

 or less rufous and no traces of any transverse black bands. 

 I therefore think that Weise's species must be distinct 

 from that of Fabricius. 



Leptaulaca maculicollis, sp. n. (Plate III, fig. 7.) 



Oblong-ovate, convex, black, abdomen more or less testaceous, head 

 and thorax flavous, each with a small black spot at middle, elytra 

 fulvous, minutely punctured, antenna? pale. Length 7 millim. 



Head impunctate, flavous, the vertex with a small black spot, 

 labrum black, antennoe long and slender, flavous, the apex of each 

 joint slightly darker, third joint scarcely shorter than the following 

 joints ; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, constricted at the 

 base, the anterior angles slightly pointed outwards, the di?c with a 

 transverse, medially interrupted sulcus at the middle, impunctate, 

 flavous, with a small black spot near the base at the middle, scutelhim 

 black ; elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, convex, 

 gradually widened posteriorly, very minutely and closely punctured, 

 fulvous, their epipleuraj broad at the base, but entirely obsolete below 

 the middle, breast and part of the abdomen as well as the legs black, 

 the last two or three abdominal segments and sometimes the under 

 portion of the femora flavous ; metatarsus of the posterior legs as 

 long as the following joints together, claws bifid. 



Mas. Last abdominal segment incised at each side, the median 

 lobe longitudinally sulcate. 



Fern. The corresponding segment truncate at the apex, with a 

 fringe of short hairs. 



Rah. Umhlali Riv. and Malvern, Natal (6'. Barher). 



This species agrees in almost every structural character 

 with Weise's genus Lcptaidaca except that the thoracic 

 sulcus is not continuous but interrupted, which is however 

 not of much importance ; lihaphidopalpa africana, Weise, 

 seems a closely allied species but differs much in the 

 structure of the antennae ; the female before me has 

 entirely black legs. 



Leptcmlaca lahiata, sp. n. 



Elongate, nearly parallel, entirely pale testaceous, labrum black, 

 thoracic sulcus straight, disc finely and sparingly punctured, elytra 

 closely and very finely punctured, tibia? all mucronate, claws bifid. 

 Length 7 millim. 



$ . Head impunctate, deeply foveolate between the eyes, clypeus 

 triangular, raised at the middle, labrum black, antennae long and 



