846 Mr. M. Jacoby on Phytophagous Coleoptera 



Glytbin^. 

 Miopristis Distantly sp. n. 



Black, labvum and mandibles flavous ; head closely punc- 

 tured ; thorax transverse, impunctate, flavous, with two large 

 black patches; eljtra pale testaceous, finely punctured, the 

 sutural and lateral margins posteriorly and a spot on the 

 shoulders black. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head closely punctured at the vertex, finely rugose at the 

 lower portion, the clypeus triangularly emarginate, its lower 

 edge flavous as well as the labrum and the mandibles ; 

 antennte extending to the base of the thorax, twelve-jointed, 

 black, the lower two joints flavous, the intermediate joints 

 more strongly widened than the others, apical joint very 

 narrow ; thorax about one and a half times broader than 

 long, convex, the sides strongly rounded as well as all the 

 angles, the anterior margin preceded at the middle by a short 

 but deep and strongly punctured transverse groove, posterior 

 margin scarcely lobed at the middle, the surface entirely im- 

 punctate, flavous, the entire sides occupied by a large black 

 ovate patch not extending to the lateral margins ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra pale testaceous, finely punctured in semiregular 

 rows ; a sutural and lateral narrow stripe, abbreviated ante- 

 riorly and posteriorly, and a small humeral spot black ; the 

 breast and abdomen black, clothed with silvery pubescence ; 

 legs flavous, the anterior ones very elongate, their tibia 

 curved, with a piceous upper margin, the apex mucronate ; 

 the anterior tarsi elongate, piceous. 



Hah. Pretoria. A single specimen. 



A typical representative of the genus and closely allied to 

 M. natalensis, Jac, but at once distinguished by the smooth, 

 shining, and impunctate thorax and the semiregular elytral 

 punctuation. 



elytra impressicolUs^ sp. n. 



Elongate, parallel, black ; thorax finely punctured, the 

 sides with a deep sinuate fovea ; elytra finely and rather 

 closely punctured, fulvous. 



Length 11 millim. 



Head deeply depressed between the eyes, black, the latter 

 surrounded by some fulvous pubescence, the vertex with a 

 deep central groove swollen, finely punctured, and strigose ; 

 anterior edge of the clypeus semicircularly emarginate ; an- 

 tennse black, extending to the base of the thorax, the fourth 

 and following joints transversely serrate ; thorax about two 



