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a shallow transverse sulcus, bounded at the sides by a sliort perpen- 

 dicular groove, the surface with a few minute punctures, shining, 

 flavous ; elytra slightly wider at the shoulders than the thorax, 

 elongate, subcylindrical and parallel, finely punctate-striate, the 

 interstices flat and impunctate ; under-side and the femora flavous, 

 anterior and intermediate tibire unarmed, posterior ones with a 

 minute tooth, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the 

 following juints together, claws appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities 

 open. 



Hah. Umtali, Mashonaland {G. Marshall). 



I can fiud uo characters of any importance to separate 

 this species generically from Baly's Eastern genus Lijimca, 

 with which it has not only the structural characters in 

 common but also the coloration, except that of the tibisB 

 and tarsi ; the elytral punctuation also is very fine, not 

 strong, roepliila, Weise, differs in the finely pubescent 

 eyes, the quadrate thorax, and the shape of its sulcus and 

 in the longer metatarsus ; the present is the first African 

 representative of this genus. 



Jjioolia, gen. n. 



Body narrowly elongate, glabrous, head broad, the frontal tubercles 

 obsolete, eyes small, antenniB filiform, the terminal joints slightly 

 thickened, thorax subquadrate, constricted at the base, the surface 

 with a transverse groove near the base, extending to the lateral 

 margins, elytra wider at the base than the tliorax, punctate-striate, 

 posterior femora very moderately thickened, their tibiiT3 with a 

 small spine, the metatarsus scarcely as long as the following two 

 joints together, claws appendiculate, prosternum narrow between the 

 coxce, the anterior cotyloid cavities closed. 



This genus is proposed for a very small species of 

 HalticidcV, having the appearance of a species of Corticaria 

 and affinities with Crepidodera ; the very obsolete frontal 

 tubercles of the head, the thoracic sulcus which is placed 

 close to the basal margin and extends to the sides, as well 

 as the but slightly thickened posterior femora and un- 

 armed anterior tibiae separate the genus from the last- 

 named one and those allied to it ; it seems a transitional 

 form between the Halticinai and Galcrucin^e. 



Livolia sulcicollis, sp. n. 

 Fulvous, the breast and abdomen black, tliorax strongly and 



