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following two together ; the first or the first two abdominal segments 

 flavous, the others black. 



Lacordaire has described three species in which the tibiae and 

 tarsi are likewise flavous ; these are M. truncatifrons, in which 

 the head is impubescent and finely strigose, and the elytra have 

 an oblique band, although this is sometimes divided into spots as 

 in the above species. M. sohrma, Lac, is described as having 

 the tarsi nearly as long as the tibife, and belongs perhaps to 

 another genus. The third species {M. litigiosa) has the thorax 

 of subquadrate shape, and not narrowed in front ; in the present 

 species this part is much deflexed at the sides, and the latter are 

 greatly narrowed ; the colour of the abdomen is also different. 

 I have probably only female specimens before me, which I 

 received from Mons. Clavareau, with the locality as given. 



Peploptera braunsi, sp. n. 



Black ; thorax fulvous, with three black bands, impunctate ; elytra 

 strongly punctate-striate, flavous ; a sutural band, abbreviated ante- 

 riorly, a short stripe at the middle of the lateral margins, and an 

 oblique spot on the shoulders, black ; the apex of the tibiae flavous. 



Mas. — Thorax broad, the tibiae strongly dilated, the anterior ones 

 slightly curved. Length 8 mill. 



Hah. Algoa Bay {Dr. Brauns) ; Dunbrody {Rev. O'Neil). 



Very closely allied to P. cuivilinea, Jac. (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901), 

 but certainly distinct. The head black, rugose punctate between the 

 eyes, and with a rather deep fovea at the middle ; antennae black, the 

 lower four joints flavous ; thorax broad, with rounded sides, fulvous, 

 entirely impunctate, the sides with an elongate black spot from the 

 base to the middle, the disc with a black band, broad at the base, 

 strongly narrowed anteriorly, and extending to the anterior margin ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra with strong regular and closely placed rows of 

 punctures, the shoulders with an elongate oblique black spot, the 

 lateral margins with a narrow black stripe from before to below the 

 middle, the suture with a very regular black band not extending to the 

 base ; under side closely pubescent, the femora strongly thickened, the 

 tibiae dilated, flavous, except the extreme base ; tarsi very broad, 

 dilated. 



The thorax in this species is broader than in P. curvilinea, 

 and has three black bands instead of one, and the sutural stripe 

 is of regular shape, not widened posteriorly ; the tibi?e of the 

 male are more strongly dilated, and of almost entirely flavous 

 colour ; lastly, the species is larger and broader in shape. I 

 received three specimens from Dr. Brauns in Natal, and several 

 others from the Kev. O'Neil in Cape Colony. 



MicROPYGA, gen. nov. 

 Elongate and subcylindrical ; eyes rather small ; thorax trans- 

 verse, the sides strongly rounded and narrowly margined, the basal 

 lobe broad but feebly produced, posterior angles rounded ; scutellum 

 pointed ; elytra distinctly but not strongly lobed below the shoulders, 



