Coleoptera from Africa and Madagascar. 197 
Blepharida intermedia, n.s. (Pl. VIL., fig. 4). 
Dark fulvous; the seven apical joints of the antenne black ; 
thorax flavous, with two broad bands and a central stripe fulvous ; 
elytra deeply punctate-striate, flavous, the suture with four, the 
dise with about eight or nine dark fulvous spots or bands. Length, 
4 lines. 
Head extremely closely and finely rugose-punctate; fulvous ; 
palpi flavous, long and slender; antennze extending beyond the 
base of the elytra, the four first joints fulvous, the rest black; 
thorax about three times broader than long, the sides angulate 
before the middle, concave towards the base, the anterior and 
posterior angles obliquely cut, the posterior margin sinuate at each 
side, and accompanied, like the anterior margin, by a narrow but 
deep transverse groove; an oblique row of deep punctures is 
placed near the anterior angles at each side, sending off a short 
branch upwards and a longer one towards the middle of the disc ; 
the surface is further impressed with smaller punctures within 
and larger ones near the sides, the latter have a broad fulvous band 
of irregular shape, not extending to the lateral margin; a short 
longitudinal stripe is also placed between these two bands at the 
base, some smaller piceous spots are seen at the anterior margin; 
scutellum flavous, margined with fulvous; elytra flavous, with ten 
rows of closely approached piceous punctures, the first short; at 
the base four piceous spots are placed in a transverse line, of 
which the one at the shoulder is in the shape of a narrow longi- 
tudinal stripe; a transverse broader band, strongly narrowed at 
the sides, occupies the middle of the disc; below this band two 
more spots occupy the lateral and some others the apical margin, 
another larger subquadrate spot is further placed near the apex of 
each elytron ; the suture is also furnished with four transversely- 
shaped short spots or bands, of which one surrounds the scutellum, 
one is placed before, another below the middle and the fourth near 
the apex; these sutural spots are here and there connected 
with those on the dise by short transverse lines, forming a kind of 
network near the apex; under side covered with fine and short 
silvery pubescence ; the anterior tarsi in the male insect dilated ; 
prosternum rather convex, subtruncate at its apex. 
Hab. Mombas, Zanzibar (my collection). 
Cladocera nigripennis, n.s. (Pl. VIL, fig. 2). 
Broadly oblong-ovate, robust, flavous; the base of the head, 
antenne, the apices of the femora, and the tibie and tarsi, black : 
