42 Mr. M. Jacoby's Descriptions of Neio Genera and 



Of broadly ovate shape, the head rather elongate, impunctate, 

 frontal elevations trigonate, well defined, antennae wicli the lower 

 three joints fiavous, the following four joints piceous, the rest broken 

 off, third joint one-half longer than the second ; thorax transversely 

 subquadrate, of usual shape, the disc very finely and closely punc- 

 tured, dark fulvous ; elytra widened towards tlie middle, broad, 

 punctured like the thorax, fulvous, an oblirj^ue, elongate flavous 

 patch extends from the base towards the suture as far as tlie middle, 

 this patch is narrowed in front of the shoulders and at the apex, 

 another strongly angulate transverse band is placed near the apex of 

 the elytra, the outer and narrower portion running parallel with the 

 lateral margin without quite extending to it nor to the suture, both 

 bands are margined with black; under-side fulvous, the legs ilavous, 

 the greater portion of the femora black ; metatarsus very elongate. 



Hal. Zambesi. 



Of this very distinct species, a single specimen is 

 contained in my collection. 



Monolcpta selecta, sp. n. 



Narrow and elongate, black, above testaceous, thorax transversely 

 depressed, elytra opaque, nearly impunctate, testaceous, narrowly 

 margined with black. Length 3-| millim. 



Head impunctate, rather darker than the thorax, frontal tubercles 

 strongly raised, trigonate, antennai long and slender, flavous, the 

 terminal joints stained with fuscous ut the apex, second and third 

 joint small, equal; thorax twice as broad as long, of equal width, 

 the sides nearly straight, very slightly constricted at the base, the 

 surface with a well-marked transverse depression, not extending to 

 the lateral margins, not perceptibly punctured, pale testaceous, 

 scutellum black ; elytra parallel, with a few very fine punctures at 

 the base, testaceous, opaque, the suture narrowly and the lateral 

 margins rather more broadly black, this colour does however not 

 extend to the apical margins of the elytra ; below black, legs 

 testaceous, metatarsus very elongate. 



JIal). Beiea (F. a. Shepimrd). 



Much narrower and more elongate than M. nigrocincta, 

 Jac, the thorax with a sulcus, and the elytral margins 

 more broadly black. 



Monolepta nigricornis, Weise (Wiegm. Arch, 1903). 



This name having already been used by the Rev. Black- 

 burn for an Australian species (Tr. Lin. Soc. N.S.W., 

 1890), I alter the name to M. atricornis. 



