( 585 ) 



disc, and a second, confluent, pair farther towards the side. The interspaces 2, 

 4, 6, 8 and 10 of the elytra are nmber-colour, while the other interspaces as 

 ■well as the outer margin are more or less distinctly chequered fuscous and greyish 

 white ; a median space on each elytrnm and a larger one in front of the apical 

 declivity are more extended fuscous than the rest of the elytra. The pygidium is 

 twice as broad as it is long (apart from the elevate basal portion covered by the 

 €lytra), being almost perfectly semicircular. The sides of the sterna are very coarsely 

 punctured : tiie mesosternal interco.xal process is distinctly angulate at the sides. 



7. Phloeobiopsis gracilis spec nov. 



(? ?. Griseus, capite et pronoti medio fulvo signatis, elytris linea nigra a sutura 

 oblique ad limbum extensa ; antennis <S medium elytrorum attingentibus, articulis 

 4''_8'' dilatatis, pronoto tri-tuberculato, elytris interstitiis alternis subelevatis 

 pustulosis. 



Long. (cap. excl.) : 3-5 mm. 



Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh), a small series of both sexes. 



The prevalent colour of the pubescence is grey, with a yellowish tone here and 

 there. The very short rostrum bears a transverse fulvous patch at the base, and 

 there is a similarly coloured patch in the centre of the pronotum. The alternate 

 interspaces of the elytra are elevate and bear small pustules, which are numerous in 

 interspaces 1, 3 and 5, some being pale ochraceons, the others black or fuscous; 

 from before the middle of the suture a black line runs obliquely backwards 

 to the outer margin, bounding the apical declivity laterally, the two lines together 

 having somewhat the shape of a lyre. Rostrum, antennae and the greater part of 

 the legs rufescent ; tip of mandibles black. Second segment of antennae as long as 

 1 and 2 together, in the c? 4 to 8 anteriorly dilated, as broad as the club, 11 

 ■elongate-ovate in S and ? , practically symmetrical. Fronotum oblong, the sides 

 moderately rounded before the centre, the apical angle projecting, the basal angle 

 obtuse, in centre of 6 a tubercle bearing black pubescence and being flanked by 

 two oblique short ridges which are placed a little nearer the apex ; farther laterally 

 A vestigial additional tubercle. Scutellnm white, nearly twice as long as it is broad. 

 Elytra cylindrical, the sntural interspace only flattened at the apex. Pygidium 

 much broader than long, snbtrnncate, the pubescence raised in the middle line. The 

 lateral posterior angles of the last two abdominal sternites distinctly project in a 

 dorsal view. Pubescence of tibiae long. 



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