Coleoptera from Africa and Madagascar. 195 
Head flat, with a few fine punctures, and two short longitudinal 
grooves between the eyes; antenne entirely fulvous, only extending 
to the base of the elytra; thorax nearly three times broader than 
long, the sides straight at the base, slightly rounded before the 
middle, the posterior margin very slightly oblique at the sides and 
but little produced at the middle ; the surface impunctate, obscure 
pale fulvous, the sides more or less bright flavous; at the sides of 
the anterior margin a short but deep and slightly curved groove 
runs downwards towards the middle; another very short groove 
in a line with the anterior one is placed at the posterior margin ; 
elytra with the punctures slightly placed in pairs and of dark 
fulvous colour, the interstices flavous and spotted with black; of 
these spots one is placed on the shoulders, two transversely on the 
basal margin, one near the suture at the junction of the first and 
second row of punctures, another below the middle near the 
suture between the first and third row of punctures, two others 
lower downwards; the third and fourth rows of punctures and the 
fifth to the eighth rows are also connected by black spots below 
the base and below the middle, and five spots of variable shape and 
sizes are placed along the lateral margin, corresponding partly 
with similar spots at the elytral epipleure; under side dark 
fulvous, finely pubescent; the posterior femora very strongly 
dilated and incrassate; prosternum straight at its base. 
Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro), (my collection). 
The elytral spots vary greatly in different individuals, 
but are always placed in the same positions as given 
above ; they are more or less connected with each other, 
and appear generally as an interrupted transverse short 
band below the middle, when looked at with the naked 
eye, the other spots being still more separated. 
Blepharida laterimaculata, n.s. (Pl. VII., fig. 9). 
Testaceous; antenne and legs fulvous; thorax with two deep 
anterior depressions, obsoletely spotted with fulvous ; elytra deeply 
punctate-striate, the interstices costate, the lateral margin spotted 
with fulvous. Length, 3 lines. 
Head rather closely punctured between the eyes, with two short 
perpendicular grooves in front of the antenne ; the latter short, 
fulvous ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides rounded 
or subangulate in front, narrowly margined, the anterior angles 
subtuberculiform, the posterior margin obliquely shaped at each 
side, its median lobe broadly rounded, the surface rather flattened 
