2 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



rounded, the anterior angles thickened, obtuse, the disc convex and 

 shining, impunctate, the basal sulcus sinuate, not foveolate at the 

 sides but extending to the latter and placed at a proportionately 

 broad distance from the basal margin, scutellum blackisli ; elytra 

 with very closely approached irregular rows of distinct punctures 

 which are getting smaller towards the apex, the interstices, especially 

 at the sides, rather uneven with some faint traces of longitudinal 

 costee below the shoulders, the latter prominent, the tibiaj of the male 

 rather strongly widened anteriorly and sulcate, the male organ 

 slender, slightly narrowed at the middle, the anterior margin nearly 

 truncate, with a small central point, the upper surface sulcate at 

 each side near the apex. 



Hab. Malvern, Natal (0. Barlrr) ; also Scdhion, West 

 Africa (C. Alluand). 



The general colour of this species, of wliich I have 

 eight specimens before me, is not blue as is mostly the 

 case in this genus, but a brassy green, and the punctuation 

 of the elytra is proportionately strong and very close, and 

 the tibia? (at least in the male) are more dilated and more 

 strongly sulcate than is usupJly the case, they may almost 

 be called triangularly compressed. 



Haltica pyritosa, Erichs. 



It is at present almost impossible to refer with certainty 

 any of the numerous species of Haltica from different 

 parts of Africa which are before me, to Erichson's species 

 without the type for comparison ; I look, however, upon 

 siDCcimens from Mozambique, Zambesi R., Mashonaland, 

 and West Africa as representing Erichson's species. The 

 author gives the colour as "neneous"; all the specimens 

 before me are cupreous above, and the elytral punctuation 

 is comparatively strong and arranged in nearly^ regular 

 and closely-approached rows ; the male organ does not 

 differ from that of several other closely-allied or perhaps 

 identical species, but all the specimens from the above 

 localities are decidedly of more elongate and parallel 

 shape than those from South Afiica before me, and I am 

 able to separate them also by the sculpturing of the 

 elytra. 



Haltica cuprca, Jac. 



This species was described by me in the Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. London, 1895, founded on specimens of entirely 



