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lateral, the other near its inner end ; with a lutoous spot on each 

 towards the apex ; with the apices rounded. Mesosternum with a 

 small conical tubercle. Legs and antennae pale brown. 



Phymasterna maculifrons, n. s. 

 P. lacteoguttatce similis ; induniento atro-fuliginoso vestita ; 

 albo-maculata ; capita maculis sex — una vertice, una medio frontis, 

 una singula gena, et una utrinque pone oculos ; prothorace plaga 

 alba utrinque ; scutello albo-maculato ; elytris maculis quinque et 

 punctis duabus albis ; antennis nigris, opacis. Long. 9 — 15 mm. 



Hob. Madagascar. 



Covered with a dull brownish black indumentum above, and 

 with a greyish pubescence underneath. Head with a white spot 

 on the vertex, a spot on the middle of the front, a transverse spot 

 on each cheek, and a email rounded spot behind each eye. 

 Prothorax with a white plaga on each side. Scutellum with a 

 white spot. Elytra sparsely punctured, with the punctures con- 

 cealed by the somewhat scaly pu.bescence ; each with two points, 

 one above, one below the shoulder, and five more or less rounded 

 spots, white ; of these spots the first is near the suture, and at a 

 short distance behind the scutellum ; the third, the smallest, is in 

 a line with the first ; the second, a little larger than the first, is on 

 the side close to the outer margin ; the fourth and fifth are placed, 

 one behind the other, on the posterior half of the elytron, the 

 fourth spot being the largest of all. Body underneath with a 

 white spot on each side of the prothorax in front of the outer 

 angle of the cotyloid cavity, a spot on each side of the mesothorax, 

 a large oblong spot on each side of the metasternum, and a spot 

 on each side of each of the first four abdominal segments. 



From P. lacteoguttata, Casteln., differs by its some- 

 what narrower form, its much blacker indumentum, the 

 white spots on the front and sides of head, and on the 

 sides of the pro- and meso-thorax underneath, the 

 scutellum with a white spot, and the spots on the elytra 

 of relatively somewhat different sizes, with the first 

 spot farther back from the scutellum. 



Phymasterna ohscura, n. s. 



Piceo-fusca, griseo-pubescens ; capitis fronte Hnea mediana 

 elevata, vertice arcuato-impressa ; prothorace obscure-fulvo-quadri- 

 vittato ; elytris punctatis, griseo fulvoque pubescentibus; antennis 

 griseo-pubescentibus, corpore duplo longioribus {$), corpore paullo 



