African Phytophagous Goleoptera. 7 



Length 5-6 niillim. 



Head strongly pimctiired near the eyes, bUick, shining, with a 

 deep, concave groove between the eyes, clypeus very broad, convex, 

 antenna3 short, black, the second and fourth joint small and equal, 

 the third elongate, the others transversely widened ; thorax more 

 than twice as broad as long, the sides feebly rounded, broadly 

 flattened, the anterior angles thickened but not produced, basal 

 margin sinuate, preceded by a shallow transverse sulcus, the surface 

 irreguhirly and rather deeply punctured, testaceous, with two small 

 black spots at the middle near the anterior margin ; another more 

 indistinct spot is placed at the sides near the base ; scutellum black ; 

 elytra very closely and distinctly punctured, the black colour 

 interrupted by a round spot near the scutellum, a transverse regular 

 band at the middle not quite extending to the suture and another 

 V-shaped band near the apex of each elytron, under-side and the legs 

 black, posterior femora strongly widened, their tibite with a small 

 tooth near the apex, claw joint strongly inflated, apical segments 

 of the abdomen and the prosternuni more or less testaceous. 



Hall. Salisbury, Mashonaland {G. Marshall). 



Longitarsvs harheri, sp. n. 



Apterous, ovate, black, shining, the antennse, the anterior and 

 intermediate legs and the posterior tibiee and tarsi flavous, thorax 

 impunctate, elytra very finely punctate-striate anteriorly, the 

 punctures obsolete near tlie apex. 



Length 2 millim. 



Head impunctate, the frontal elevations small and transverse, 

 bounded by a straight groove behind, the carina acute, antennse 

 extending beyond the middle of the elytra, flavous, the terminal 

 joints slightly fuscous at their apex, basal joint thick and sub- 

 cylindrical, the following three of equal length, fifth joint much 

 longer, apical ones slightly thickened ; thorax subqiiadrate, the sides 

 straight, the anterior angles strongly oblique, forming a slight tubercle 

 before the middle, the disc rather convex, impunctate, black, shining, 

 scutellum strongly transverse ; elytra ov;ite, convex, distinctly widened 

 at the middle, the apex of each rounded, the punctuation very fine and 

 arranged in irregular rows anteriorly, irregular and scarcely per- 

 ceptible near the apex ; under-side and the posterior femora black, 

 the rest of the legs flavous, metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as 

 the following joints together. 



Rab. Malvern, Natal (C. Barker). 



Smaller than L. nigritula, the antennae entirely flavous, 



