Species of African Halticinm and Galerucinx. 45 



downwards in a narrow ridge at the sides of the clypeus, the latter 

 likewise narrowly elongate, eyes large, antennse rather short, pale 

 fulvous, the first joint very slender, elongate and curved, the second 

 one-half shorter than the third, the latter and the following joints 

 gradually elongated, more or less stained with piceous at the base ; 

 thorax transverse, the sides straight and obliquely narrowed anteriorly, 

 the anterior angles slightly obliquely thickened, posterior margin 

 rounded and rather strongly produced at the middle, the disc finely 

 and rather closely punctured, scutellum transverse, piceous, the apex 

 rounded ; elytra gradually widened towards the apex, more strongly 

 punctured than the thorax, their epipleur* continued below tlie 

 middle ; under-side black like the upper surface, legs slender, fulvous, 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs more than half the length of the 

 tibiaB, the latter with a long spine ; anterior cotyloid cavities closed. 



Hab. Mt. Gamo, South Ogowe. 



This species, of which I received two specimens from 

 M. Clavareau at Brussels, is a rather aberrent one, on 

 account of its short and convex shape, and the structure 

 of its head and clypeus ; it is further distinguished by 

 the black upper- and under-side. 



Candezea pygiclialis, sp. n. 



Oblong-ovate, testaceous, thorax strongly transverse, minutely 

 granulate, elytra with deep black lateral margins and epipleurse, 

 very finely punctured and granulate, pygidium black. Length 6 

 millim. 



Head minutely punctured and granulate, eyes large and pro- 

 minent, clypeus convex, triangular, antennae with the lower four 

 joints and the base of the fifth flavous, the following two joints 

 darker, the rest broken off, third joint twice as long as the second 

 one, the others elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed 

 from base to apex, the sides straight, posterior margin broadly rounded, 

 sinuate near the angles, tlie disc sculptured like the head, scutellum 

 triangular ; elytra gradually widened posteriorly, very minutely 

 transversely wrinkled and punctured, testaceous, the lateral and 

 apical margins as well as the epipleura? and extreme base, deep 

 black, this colour is in shape of a narrow band, which gradually and 

 slightly widens towards the apex, elytral epipleurte narrowly con- 

 tinued below the middle, under-side and legs testaceous, the meta- 

 tarsus very long, pygidium black. 



Hcib. W. Africa. 



A well-marked species which cannot be mistaken for 



