Species of African HaUicinfB and Galerucin/v. 31 



sides, constricted below the shoulders as well as the tarsi black. 

 Length 4 millim. 



Head black at the vertex, impunctate, minutely granulate, the 

 frontal tubercles very jirominent, elongate and pyriform, fulvous as 

 well as the clypeus, antennaa rather long, black, the second and 

 third joint small, equal, the following joints slightly widened ; 

 thorax but slightly broader than long, all the margins nearly straight, 

 the surface rather convex, flavous, minutely granulate and finely and 

 sparingly punctured, scutellum black ; elytra distinctly and moder- 

 ately closely punctured, with the interstices finely wrinkled here and 

 there, flavous, the greater part of the disc occupied by a black 

 longitudinal band which embraces the shoulders and extends to the 

 base but not to the apex ; in front of the shoulders, it is greatly 

 constricted, another short sutural stripe extends from the scutellum 

 to the middle ; legs fulvous, the breast, abdomen and the tarsi black ; 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following two joints 

 together, tibiro with a small spine. 



Hctb. Lesapi River, Maslionaland. 

 A well-marked species of which I received a single 

 specimen. 



Exosoma (Malacosoma) tongaatensis, sp, n. 



Flavous, thorax subquadrate, impunctate, elytra Ijlack, the base 

 with a few punctures, the lower portion impunctate, breast black, 

 abdomen fulvous. Length 3^ millim. 



Elongate and subcylindrical, the head impunctate, flavous, frontal 

 elevations broadly transverse, well developed and separated, carina 

 lanceolate, clypeus narrowly transverse, antennae slender, llavous, 

 third joint double the length of the second and as long as the fourth 

 joint, terminal joints slightly thickened, extending to about the 

 middle of the elytra ; thorax about one-half broader than long, sub- 

 quadrate, convex, the sides rounded at the middle, the disc impunc- 

 tate, flavous and very shining, scutellum flavous ; elytra wider at the 

 base than the thorax, snbcylindrical, slightly depressed below the 

 base, the latter with a few fine punctures, the rest of the surface 

 nearly impunctate, black, legs flavous, tibite mucronate, the meta- 

 tarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following joints together, 

 breast black, abdomen fulvous ; prosternum very narrow, convex. 



Hob. Upper Tongaat (C. Barker). 



Exosoma {Malacosoma) aincipenjie, Jac. (Plate III, fig. 10.) 

 This species has already been described and figured in 



the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1899, which I have unfortunately 



overlooked. 



