Sjwcies of African HaUiciniB and Galcrucinfe. 41 



third joint twice as long as tlie second, the others very slender and 

 elongate ; thorax short, more than twice as broad as long, slightly- 

 narrowed anteriorly, the sides nearly straight, the lateral margins 

 with a single long black hair before and below the middle, the 

 surface with a few fine punctures, scutellum black ; elytra closely 

 punctured, violaceous-blue, below and the femora flavous, tibia3, tarsi 

 and the breast black ; metatarsus of hind-legs very long. 



Ilah. Old Calabar {Dr. Brauns). 



Mo7iolepta i^ygidialis, sp. n. 



Head and under side ferrugineous, thorax and legs flavous, elytra 

 extremely minutely punctured, flavous, a narrow, transverse, ungulate 

 band at the base and another near the apex, black, pygidium black. 

 Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, ferrugineous or rufous, the frontal elevations 

 rather broad and flat, eyes large, antennas flavous, slender, the second 

 and third joint small, the fourth as long as the preceding two together, 

 terminal joints slightly shorter and thicker ; thorax one-half broader 

 than long, the sides nearly straight, not narrowed in front, anterior 

 angles thickened, the surface extremely minutely punctured, flavous, 

 scutellum fulvous ; elytra punctured like the thorax, yellowish-white, 

 the black bands narrow, the basal one angulate at the shoulders and 

 extending downwards at the lateral margins to about one-third the 

 length of the elytra, the second band slightly oblifj^ue, near the apex 

 and generally not quite touching the lateral margins, the pygidium 

 black. 



Hal. Malvern, Estcourt, Natal {C. Barker). 



This species must not be confounded with if. bifasciata, 

 Fab., or any of the other banded forms of MonoUpta, from 

 Avhieh it is at once distinguished by the black pygidium, 

 entirely flavous antenna^ which have the last joint some- 

 times piceous, and the narrow ely tral bands ; all the 

 specimens before me belong to the female sex ; M. hifa- 

 sciata is a rather larger species in which the second elytral 

 band is not placed quite so low as in the present insect ; 

 the pygidium also is flavous, 



Monohp)ta zamhesiana, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the legs flavous, femora marked with black, thorax and 

 elytra finely punclured ; the latter with an oblique flavous patch 

 from the base to the middle and another angulate band near the apex, 

 both margined with black. Length 5 millim. 



