204 Mr. Jacoby’s descriptions of phytophagous 
transversely-raised ridge ; palpi flavous, the terminal joint conical, 
longer than the preceding one; antennz less than half the length of 
the body, the first joint dilated, rather short, the second ovate, short, 
the third more than twice the length of the second, the rest gradually 
shortened and widened, the four lower joints flavous, the others 
black; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides obtusely 
angulate before the middle, the angles tuberculiform, flavous, the 
posterior margin straight, the entire surface strongly rugose, bright 
green, subopaque; scutellum flavous, slightly pubescent; elytra 
without basal depression, parallel, much more finely and evenly 
rugose throughout; under side and legs flavous. 
Hab. Cameroons, Africa (my collection). 
Apophylia smaragdipennis, n.s. (Pl. VIL., fig. 13). 
Obscure purplish or greenish black; antennex, lower part of the 
face, and legs, flavous; above metallic-green, finely punctured and 
transversely wrinkled. Length, 2—8 lines. 
Head broad at the base, minutely granulate and punctured; the 
frontal tubercles ovate, strongly raised. lower part of the face and 
the labrum flavous; antenne more than half the length of the 
body, fulvous, the first joint strongly thickened, club-shaped, the 
third one-half longer, the terminal joints more slender and elon- 
gate; thorax transverse, the sides rounded and narrowed towards 
the base, the anterior and posterior margins nearly straight, the 
sides finely margined and rather deflexed, the extreme lateral 
margin and the under side flavous, the dise metallic-green, finely 
punctured and transversely strigose, with a short transverse de- 
pression near the anterior margin; scutellum rather broad, tri- 
gonate; elytra narrowly parallel, finely transversely wrinkled 
throughout, their epipleure broad at the base, gradually narrowed 
towards the middle ; under side covered with fine silky pubescence, 
metallic-greenish or purplish ; legs flavous, the four anterior tibie 
mucronate, the posterior ones unarmed; claws appendiculate ; 
anterior coxal cavities open. 
Hab. South Africa, Cape Town (my collection). 
This is probably the A. smaragdina, Dej., of which 
Chapuis, in his diagnosis of the genus, speaks, and 
which served him for the type, but I can find no pub- 
lished description of the species. The generic characters, 
as pointed out by Chapuis, are all present in the insect 
before me, but some slight differences are noticeable. 
Chapuis gives the fourth joint of the antenne as the 
