22 Mr. M. Jacoby vn 



fovea, minutely punctured, elytra very closely and linely puuftured, 

 the suture narrowly fuscous. 



Length 3-4 millini. 



Head black at the vertex, impunctate and shining, the frontal 

 tu1)ercles transverse, strongly raised, carina acute, flavous like the 

 clypeus, labruin and palpi Idack, antenna' rather long and sleneler, 

 piceous, the third but slightly longer than the second l3ut much 

 shorter than the fourth ; thorax but little broader than long, flavous, 

 very minutely granulate and punctured, with an obsolete depression 

 at each side, lateral margins feebly rounded at the middle, anterior 

 angles thickened, scntellum Idack ; elytra wider at the base than 

 th-j thorax, very feel.ily transversely depressed below the base, ex- 

 tremely closely and finely punctured, obscure testaceous (sometimes 

 fuscous) with the suture narrowly piceous or fuscous ; under-side 

 black, the femora flavous, metatarsus of the posterior legs as long 

 as the following joints together. 



Hab. Malvern, Natal {C. Barker); Dunbrody, Cape 

 Colony {Bev. O'Neil). 



This Luperus may easily be mistaken for L. inconspicuics, 

 Jac, from Masbonaland, with which it has the same colora- 

 tion in common, but in that species the vertex of the 

 head is finely granulate and not shining, the clypeus is 

 black and very broad as well as the frontal elevations, 

 the thorax is more transversely shaped, and the legs are 

 generally entirely dark colotired. 



Aixypliifha, Chev. (nee Chapuis). 



This genus has been entirely mistaken by Chapuis, 

 Allan!, and myself. The description given by Chapuis 

 of Apopliylia does not apply to the type at all ; the latter 

 is the A. dhloroptcra, Thorns., who is the first who char- 

 acterized the genus, and that insect belongs to the genus 

 known at present as Malaxia, Fairm. = GlyptoJus, Jac. This 

 latter name, therefore, cannot stand,, and all the species 

 placed in it must be placed in Apopliyrui. A. tricolor, Fab., 

 and others must receive another generic name as they do 

 not belong to Apop)hylia. It is difficult to know what 

 insect Chapuis had before him when he drew up his 

 description of the genus ; he gives as the type A. smnrag- 

 (lina, Dej. (a catalogue name), and says that the anterior 

 and intermediate tibia^ are mucronate ; but this is an error,. 



