Longicornid from Africa and Madagascar. 317 



scutello, macula ovali pone scutellum, et macula subovali (antice 

 nigro-notata) singulo elytro ad medium niveis; elytris valde pniic- 

 tatis, apicibus rotundatis ; corpore subtus brunneo, pectore iitrinque 

 niveo-vittato ; antennis fusco-fernigiueis tenuiter griseo-pubescen- 

 tibus. Long. 13 ; lat. 4 mm. 



Hah. L. Nyassa {Thelicall). 



With a fiilvous brown pubescence. Head with a longitudinal 

 median raised black line ; with an arcuate linear impression 

 between the antennal tubercles ; with the eyes large ; with the 

 palpi testaceous. Prothorax unarmed and slightly rounded at the 

 sides ; transversely grooved near the base and apex ; with a median 

 dorsal vitta, and a broader vitta on each side snow-white ; the 

 lateral vittte produced to the eyes in front, and along the sides of 

 the breast behind. Scutellum and an oval sutural spot adjoining 

 it, snow-white. Each elytron, just in front of the middle, with an 

 oval snow-white spot which is marked at its anterior end with a 

 small round black spot ; with a similar black spot at the side of each 

 elytron behind and below the shoulder. Apices of the elytra 

 rounded. Mesosternal process strongly tubercled. Autennte red- 

 dish brown, with a faint grej'ish pubescence. 



Alphitopola Pascoei, n, s. (PI. IX., fig. 4). 

 Pallide-brunnea, tenuissime griseo-pubescens ; capite antice 

 luteo-flavo-pubescente, linea mediana longitudinali elevata ; pro- 

 thorace medio disci sub-nitido, lateribus singulis vitta, lutea, nigro- 

 unipunctata ; elytris valde punctatis, maculis tribus basalibus (una 

 communi pone scutellum), fasciaque obliqua nigro-bipunctata 

 utrinque ante medium, et macula utrinque versus apicem, luteis ; 

 apicibus rotundatis ; pedibus antennisque brunueis. Long. 12 mm. 



Hah. L. Nyassa (Thelwall). 



Head with a buff yellow pubescence in front, with a raised 

 longitudinal median black line, with an arcuate linear impression 

 between the antennal tubercles. Prothorax unarmed and slightly 

 rounded in the middle at the sides, with a transverse groove 

 towards base and apex, each side with a luteous vitta marked near 

 its middle with a minute black spot. Elytra strongly and some- 

 what sparsely punctured ; with three luteous spots at the base — 

 one behind and one on each side of the scutellum — of which the 

 two lateral are each terminated anteriorly by a small black point ; 

 with, on each before its middle, an oblique luteous fascia extending 

 from the margin inwards and backwards without reaching the 

 suture, and marked with two small round black spots, one near its 



