Species of African Halticinx and Galerucina^. 35 



blackish spots ; elytra finely pubescent, a broad longitudinal band 

 near the suture and another one near the lateral margins, violaceous 

 blue. Length 7 millini. 



Head scarcely longer than broad, finely rugose and pubescent, 

 testaceous, with an elongate central spot at the vertex, eyes prominent, 

 labrum black, antennte with the lower six joints testaceous, the rest 

 black, first joint slender and elongate, second short, third and fourtli 

 joint as long as the first, the following joints gradually shorter and 

 thicker ; thorax obliquely narrowed from base to apex, the sides 

 perfectly straight, the angles acute, the posterior ones obli(]^uely 

 shaped, the surface finely rugose and pubescent, testaceous, the sides 

 with a narrow blackish stripe, the middle of the base with a rounded 

 spot, scutellum broad at the base, truncate at the apex ; elytra clothed 

 with short yellowish pubescence, finely rugose throughout, with two 

 metallic violaceous bands, the first close to the suture not quite 

 reaching to the apex, the second parallel with the lateral margins bul 

 extending to the suture and apex, both bands are of equal widtli and 

 are interrupted by a narrower testaceous stripe of the ground colour, 

 the extreme lateral margins and epipleurre as well as tlie under-side 

 and legs are likewise testaceous. 



Hob. Cameroons. 



There is only a single specimen (apparently a female) 

 before me, in which the last abdominal segment is entire. 



Platyxantha {Haplotcs) hicolor, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the antennse and legs flavous, head and thorax with slight 

 purplish gloss, the latter bifoveolate, elytra metallic-green, finely 

 punctured and granulate, very obsoletely sulcate. 



(^. Antennre with all the joints strongly curved and with a fringe 

 of hairs. Length 5h niillim. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, with a pronounced purplish gloss, 

 frontal elevations narrow and transverse, strongly pointed anteriorly, 

 eyes large, labrum and palpi flavous, antennse flavous (the last joint 

 wanting), basal joint strongly thickened at the apex, second one small, 

 third and following joints elongate, nearly equal, strongly curved, 

 with a fringe of hairs at the lower edge ; thorax about one-half 

 broader than long, the sides straight at the base, widened before the 

 middle, the lateral margins with some long black pubescence, the 

 disc with two deep depressions, impunctate, with the exception of a 

 few fine punctures near the anterior angles, coloured like the head, 

 scutellum fulvous ; elytra parallel, without trace of a basal depression, 

 metallic-green, minutely granulate and very finely and sparingly 



