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ment faits d’une petite tache suturale et de deux grandes latérales 
noirâtres plus ou moins remontantes. Un exemplaire est entière- 
ment testacé sauf les yeux noirs et une très petite tache suturale 
brune tres près de l’extrêmite. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF 
PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 
CONTAINED IN THE 
COLLECTION OF THE BRUSSELS MUSEUM AND MY OWN, 
by Martin Jacoby 
Poecilomorpha varicolor n. sp. 
Blackish, finely pubescent below, the head with one, the thorax 
with three longitudinal yellow bands; elytra fulvous at the base, 
each elytron with a spot before, another below the middle and a 
third near the apex, yellow. 
Length 5 1/2 lines. 
Of elongate, posteriorly strongly narrowed shape, blackish, the 
head coriaceous, with a central yellow pubescent stripe, the space 
surrounding the eyes, the indentation of the latter as well as the 
lower portion of the face likewise clothed with golden-yellow 
bairs, antenæ short, black, the first and third joint elongate, the 
second and fourth very small, the terminal joints transversely 
widened; thorax conical, not longer than broad, widened and 
rounded at the middle, the surface sculptured like the head, 
opaque, black, the sides broadly clothed with yellow pubescence, 
the middle with a longitudinal yellow stripe from the base to the 
apex; scutellum clothed with thick yellow pubescence; elytra of 
the same sculpture as the thorax, obsoletely depressed below the 
bàse, the latter to the extend of about one third, fulvous, a small 
spot of yellow pubescence is placed at the end of the fulvous por- 
tion, a very narrow transverse short stripe below the middle and 
another elongate spot at the suture near the apex; underside clo- 
thed with fine yellow pubescence ; posterior femora strongly 
incrassate, extending beyond the abdomen in the male, unarmed; 
tibiæ and tarsi black. 
Hab. River N'Gamic (collection Brussels Mus.) Gaboon (collec- 
tion Jacoby). 
This handsome species resembles somewhat in its coloration 
P. mutilaria Klug. but differs entirely in the colour of the 
thorax, its longitudinal yellow bands and in the rufous basal 
portion of the elÿtra and their pattern. 
