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IV. Descriptions of New Species of Galerucide. By 
JoserH S. Bany, F.L.S. 
[Read February 2nd, 1881. | 
List oF SPECIES. 
Oides costata . . . . - Lake Nyassa. 
5» antennahs . . . + Queensland. 
Blepharida guttulata. Angola. 
i ornata . . . Transvaal. 
i xanthospilota . China. 
~ nigripennis . . Malacca. 
Eutheca malayana . . . Macassar. 
Notozona Clarkii. . . - Bahia. 
Asphera oblecta . - + - Amazons. 
RACISM Vela, Venezuela. 
Podagrica madagassa Madagascar. 
Crepidodera madagassa . - Me 
Oides costata. ‘ 
Anguste ovata, postice vix ampliata, convexa, pallide 
rufo-picea, subopaca, antennis basi piceis exceptis, nigris ; 
subtus nitida, mesosterno, abdomine, apice excepto, pedi- 
busque nigris ; thorace tenuiter punctato, lateribus late 
reflexis; elytris crebre rugoso-punctatis, leviter elevato- 
costatis. Long. 7 lin. 
Hab. Lake Nyassa. 
Head shining, nearly impunctate; vertex impressed 
sn the middle with a large but shallow fovea; labrum 
and palpi nigro-piceous ; antenne robust, more than halt 
the length of the body, black, the three lower joints 
piceous, stained with black. Thorax twice as broad as 
long; the sides broadly reflexed, obtusely rounded, con- 
verging and sinuate just behind the apex, the anterior 
angles slightly produced, subacute, the hinder ones 
obsolete; surface finely punctured, broadly but slightly 
excavated on either side behind the middle, just within 
the lateral margin, impressed on the hinder disk with a 
wedge-shaped fovea. Scutellum trigonate, shining, 1m- 
punctate. Hlytra rather broader than the thorax at the 
