18 Mr. M. Jacoby rm 



incisions; this is a mistake, as in H.hituherculata this part 

 is only very slij,htly concave, and Weise's insect must 

 represent another species. In the British Museum speci- 

 men the elytral fulvous margin is only just visible. 



Hypcrwantha ahdominaUs, Duv., C. Rend. Belg. Entom. 



Soc. (1891, July). 

 Hyperacafhtha ahdominaJis, Jac, the Entomologist (1891, 



May). 

 On account of my name having the priority of two 

 months, I alter that of Duvivier's to H. duvivicri. 



Hypcracantha ahdominalis, Jac. 



In the Entomologist for 1891, I have desciibed this 

 species from specimens obtained at the Transvaal and 

 other localities in Africa. The typical form has a reddish 

 I'ulvuus upper surface, the elytra are narrowly mai'gined 

 with black, and have a transverse black band at the middle, 

 the under-side is black with tlie exception of the flavous 

 last segment. I have lately received other specimens 

 from the Umkomaas Mountains in Natal, obtained by Mr. 

 Guy Marshall, which I am quite unable to separate from 

 the type structurally, although one specimen only resembles 

 it in the coloration of the upper surface ; in this specimen, 

 however, the under-side is entirely flavous; the others 

 represent the following varieties. 



Var. {(() Elytra margined witli black at tlie anterior halt only, 

 the transverse band narrower, not extending to the .suture, under- 

 side flavous, general size much smaller. 



Vio: (b) Elytra with a small bhiek stripe at the lateral margins 

 from the base to the shoulders and a small spot at tlie middle of 

 each elytron, under-side and the femora black. 



Var. (c) Upper- and under-sides entirely flavous. 



In all these varieties the tibiae have the apex black 

 and the tarsi are entirely of that colour as is the case in 

 the type. The insect seems to be subject to a very great 

 amount of variation in re^rard to colour and also to size ; 

 the general shape is broadly ovate and convex. I cannot 

 find any differences in the antennre or the sculpture. 



Hy2')cracantlia cqncipcs, sp. n. 



Broadly oblong, testaceou.<5, theantennie (tlie basal joints excepted) 

 the In'east, the apex of the tibia" and the tarsi black, llmrax strongly 



