196 Mr. Jacoby’s descriptions of phytophagous 
and impunctate, flavous or testaceous, obsoletely blotted with 
fulvous; at each side a deep but short fovea is placed; elytra 
longitudinally costate throughout, the interstices deeply punctate- 
striate ; a row of spots is placed at the lateral margin, commencing 
at the shoulder; prosternum, with its base, truncate. 
Hab. South Africa. Three specimens are contained 
in my collection. . 
Blepharida ornaticollis, n.s. (Pl. VIL., fig. 8). 
Fulvous; above flavous; head closely punctured; thorax with 
one anterior and two posterior grooves, fulvous, the sides and a 
central stripe flavous; elytra closely punctate-striate, a spot at 
each shoulder, two at the sides, one near the apex, two or three 
sutural spots, and the strie, dark fulvous. Length, 3 lines. 
Head convex at the vertex, closely and finely rugose-punctate ; 
antenne fulvous or flavous, extending slightly beyond the thorax, 
the third joint more slender and longer than the rest; thorax 
three times broader than long, strongly rounded at the sides near 
the middle, the anterior angles produced, with a deep transverse 
groove near the anterior and two equally deep and sinuate grooves 
near the posterior margin ; at the sides are similar grooves running 
parallel with the lateral margin; all these grooves are of a dark 
fulvous colour, as well as two broad irregularly-shaped bands 
placed at the sides; these bands are deeply but narrowly indented 
at their inner and outer margins, and impressed with deep but 
irrégularly-placed punctures; a small spot near the anterior angles 
and a short stripe at the middle of the disc completes the design 
of the thorax; scutellum piceous; elytra flavous, deeply punctate- 
striate, the punctures dark fulvous, the sutural stripe extending 
to near the middle; a piceous or fulvous spot is placed at the 
shoulder; one at the middle of the lateral margin, another in the 
same line at the middle of the disc, and a fourth near the apex ; 
besides these spots the suture has four or five spots placed at 
unequal distances, some others are situated below the middle at 
the lateral margin and the epipleur; below dark fulvous, finely 
pubescent. 
Hab. Africa. Three specimens are contained in my 
collection. 
The spotted thorax and the position of the elytral 
spots separates B. ornaticollis from other African species 
previously described, 
