348 Mr. M. Jacoby on Phytophagous Coleoptera 



as the following two joints together, third joint divided to the 

 middle. 



Ilab. Pretoria. 



Of this species a single (apparently female) specimen was 

 obtained, which in its system of coloration entirely resembles 

 several other African species of the same genus, notably 

 Lachnea equestris, Lac, and L. nigrofasciatus, Lac. ; but the 

 sculpturing of the thorax and the elytra is so entirely different 

 that I think there will not be much difficulty in recognizing the 

 insect. It agrees in the latter respect far better with Titubcea 

 tkoracica, Jac, but in that species the anterior portion of the 

 thorax is flavous, the elytra are much more finely punctured 

 (although similarly sculptured) and shining, and the tibiae 

 are fulvous. 



CJylra hifasciata, De Geer. Pretoria. 



elytra Wahlbergt, Lac. Waterberg, Pretoria, Pienaar'a 



River, Pietersburg. 

 elytra mterrupta, Lac. Pretoria. 



Antipus fulveola, sp. n. 



Black below, above fulvous ; head and thorax im punctate ; 

 elytra very closely and finely punctured, semiopaque. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, with a small fovea at the middle, 

 the anterior edge of the clypeus feebly concave ; mandibles 

 robust, black, margined with rufous, the left mandible curved 

 strongly inwards at the apex; eyes rather small, oblong, 

 slightly sinuate ; antennse very short, fuscous, the lower three 

 joints fulvous, the fourth and following joints triangularly 

 widened, but not serrate ; thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides nearly straight, the posterior angles evenly 

 rounded, the posterior margin scarcely lobed at the middle, 

 the surface entirely impunctate, fulvous, shining, the base 

 with a slight transverse sulcus at the middle ; scutellum 

 triangular; elytra feebly lobed below the shoulders, extremely 

 finely and closely punctured : underside and legs black, finely 

 pubescent, anterior legs elongate as well as the tarsi, the first 

 joint of the latter as long as the following two joints together. 



Hab. Pretoria. 



There are two males and one female of this species 

 before me which, on account of reproducing the principal 

 structural characters of Antipus on a smaller scale, I have 

 placed in this genus ; but the exact position of the insect is, 

 like so many others of this difficult group, a matter of opinion. 



