94 Mr. W. F. Kirby's 



78. Xifliicera angolensis (?). 



JCiphoccra angolensis, Saussure, Spic. Ent., ii, p. 47, pi. i, 

 fig. 8 (1887). 



Hah. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant), Barberton {Ren- 

 daU). 



A series of immature specimens, apparently more re- 

 sembling this species tlian any other. 



79. Xi2')hiccra cincrascens. 

 Pamphagus cincrascens, Stal, Rec. Orth., i, p. 23 (1873). 



Hob. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant), Barberton {Rcn- 

 dall). 



Many specimens from Pretoria of this large and hand- 

 some species, representing both sexes, and also larval 

 forms. One male exhibits a peculiar malformation of the 

 right antenna, Avhich is only half the length of the other, 

 and consists of about eight malformed joints. 



80. XipMcera rugosi'pcs, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. GO-f55 inilhrn. 



Female. Very rugose and nodulose. Antenna^ 16-jointed, scape 

 thick, twice as long as broad, distinctly grauiduted ; second joint 

 annular, joints 3-8 moderately broad and iiattened, ribbondike, 

 joints 4 and 5 the shortest, the last si.x joints much narrower, and dis- 

 tinctly separated ; joint 11 the shortest, nearly square, joint 13 

 half as long again ; the others longer. Vertex seen from the side 

 nearly on a level with the lower part of the face ; scutellum of the 

 vertex slightly depressed and rectangular in front, the extremities 

 of the angle projecting somewhat beyond the lateral carina', in front 

 of the eye ; the lateral carinse curving round in front of the occiput. 

 Colour rufo-testaceous, varied with paler and darker, indistincth' 

 striated with blackish, and covered with whitish granules. Crest of 

 the pronotiira moderately arched, the hinder part strongly granulated, 

 both on the median line and on the outside ; terminal carina? 

 yellowish. All the i)leiu'ie strongly serrated above each pair of lege. 

 Abdomen with a strong tooth on each segment on the median line, 

 and with a row of tubercles on each side. The whole thorax 

 and abdomen are very rugose, and strongly granulated. Hind 

 femora shaped as in X. latipes, strongly granulated and tuber- 

 culated, the central area reticulated with black. Upper carina 

 strongly serrated, the hinder part somewhat raised beyond the 



