12 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



a short transverse depressiDU below tlie shoulders impressed with some 

 deeper punctures. 



Length ^l millini. 



Of the shape of a species of Splxaeroderma ; the head impunctate, 

 with a transverse groove between the eyes, frontal elevations small, 

 clypeus rather widened between the antennoe, palpi thickened, the 

 apical joint conical, antenn;e filiform, the lower six and part of the 

 seventh joint pale fulvous, the rest black, second and third joint 

 short, equal, the following elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, 

 the sides straight at the base, rounded from the middle to the apex, 

 the anterior angles blunt, tile median lobe of the posterior margin 

 nearly strnight at the middle, each side of the same margin provided 

 Avitli a small notch, the surface entirely impunctate, reddish-fulvous, 

 scutellum black, elytra wider at the Ijase than the thorax, strongly 

 convex, finely punctured in irregular rows, with a short Ijut deep 

 transverse depression below the shoulders within which the com- 

 mencement of deeper rows of punctures are placed, apex of the 

 elytra nearly impunctate, legs rather robust, fulvous, the first joint 

 of tlie posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints together, 

 anterior coxal cavities closed, prosternum elongate and narrow. 



Hah. Malvern, Natal (6*. Barker). 



This species has entirely the shajie and coloration of 

 P. indica, Fab., but differs in the short second and third 

 joints of the antennae and the deeply punctured elytral 

 depression. I received a single specimen from Mr, 

 Barker ; another one in my collection has only the first 

 four joints of the antennae fulvous but agrees in all other 

 respects. 



Grcpldodera. carinipciims, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the outer joints of the antenna: black, thorax with 

 very deep and Ijroad sulcus, finely i)unctured, elytra very closely 

 and rather strongly ])unctate-striate, metallic dark green, with an 

 acute ridge from the shoulders downwards. 



Man. Antennae long and robust, the Ijasal joint strongly thickened. 



Fern. Antenn;e shorter and thinner. 



Var. Thorax and elytra dark blue. 



Length 4 millim. 



Elongate and parallel, the head finely wrinkled at the vertex, the 

 frontal elevations very strongly raised, subquadrate, clypeus triangu- 

 larly raised, antenna; black, the lower foiu" joints fulvous, the basal 

 joint strongly thickened and subquadrate in the male insect, fourth 



