356 Mr. M. Jacoby on Phytophagous Cohoptera 



Chapuis has given a four-lined description of Lactica afri- 

 cana from Abyssinia (A.nnali di Mus. Civ. Genova, 1879), 

 which probably belongs to Phygasia. This insect agrees in 

 the main point with the present species, but is larger, and the 

 antennge and tarsi are more or less stained with fuscous ; as 

 no other details are given^ which, in my opinion, is worse 

 than no description at all, it is impossible to say whether the 

 species described here is identical with that of Chapuis or not ; 

 but probably it is distinct, as several closely allied African 

 species of the genus exist. 



Phygasia limbata, Baly. Pretoria. 



Podagrica indica, Fabr. Pretoria. 



This apparently not uncommon species has been described 

 by Fabricius from India, from which country I have seen no 

 specimens as yet, although it is not impossible that the insect 

 has this wide distribution, as the same is the case with Crypto- 

 cephalus savguinolentus, Oliv. At all events, the species is 

 not a Sphceroderma, where it is placed in Gemminger's Cata- 

 logue, but a true Podagrica, with which it agrees in structural 

 characters and in the closed, not open, anterior coxal cavities. 



Galjeeucin^. 



Anlacopjhora foveicollis, Kiist. Nyassaland, Fort Johnston. 



Atdacopthora seocplagiata, Jac. Cape Colony : Port Alfred. 



Eyperacantha abdominalis, Jac. Barberton. 



Hyper acantha fenestratOy Chap. Barberton. 



Hyperacantha pectoralis^ Jac. (nee Fairmaire). Pretoria, 

 Johannesburg, "Waterberg. 



Hyperacantha bituberculata, Fabr. Barberton. 



Diacantha co7iifera, Fairm. Waterberg, Rusteuburg. 



Laetana histrio^ Baly. Barberton. 



Malacosoma {Sermyla) suturalisj Alld. Zoutpansberg. 



Malacosoma bimaculata, Bert. Barberton. 



Cerochroa brachialis, Stal. Rustenburg. 



Galerucella triloba, Fabr. Pretoria. 



Megalognatha ventricosa, Baly. Zoutpansberg. 



Asbecesta cyanipenniSj Har, Pretoria. 



