158 Mr. G. Lewis on 



described in which the arched sulcus of the pi-opygidium is 

 complete. I only know the male. The species should be 

 placed near H. arcitenens, Mars. 



Hob Usambara, East Africa, 1898. 



Ilololepta africancp., sp. n. 



Late ovata, deprcssa, nigra, nitida ; fronte impressa ; pronoto 

 lateribus parce punctato ; elytris stria dorsali l a brevi, appendi- 

 culata, 2 a brevissima ; propygidio haud sulcato ; pygidio dense 

 punctato. 



L. 12 mill, (absque mandibulis). 



Broadly oval, depressed, black and shining ; the head, 

 ocular tubercles rather strong and depressed, with two ex- 

 tremely fine bent striae behind the mandibles and only seen 

 in certain lights, impressed anteriorly; the thorax, anterior 

 angles in male emarginate, with a deep circular fossa imme- 

 diately behind them, the marginal stria is very fine and 

 apparently abbreviated before the posterior angle, inner stria 

 abbreviated at the base and anteriorly not reaching the angle 

 (this character is the better seen in the female, as the angle 

 is without the fossa), there are a few punctures on the lateral 

 border, more in the female than male, the anterior edge is 

 almost straight behind the neck, base bisinuous near the 

 scutellum ; the elytra, the subhumeral furrow is wide in the 

 middle and reaches the base, but not the apex of the elytra, 

 the first stria is short and basal, with an appendage about its 

 own length, second basal and very short ; the propygidium has 

 an impression on either side on the posterior edge, impressions 

 punctate, also the lateral borders, posterior edge and disk 

 smooth, there are no sulci ; the pygidium is densely and 

 coarsely punctate; the prosternum is wide, especially at the 

 base, where it widens out triangularly, and bisinuous between 

 the coxse; the mesosternum has a rather fine stria on the 

 anterior margin on each side ; the anterior tibia? are 4-dentate. 

 The mentum of the male is rather feebly carinate. 



In size this species is larger than 77. sternincisa, Mars., 

 and it is relatively broader. 

 Hab. Mikindani, East Africa. 



l/ololepta malarias. Lew. 



Hololepta malaria, Lewis, Deutsche eut. Zeitschr. p. 261 (1895). 



I find the thoracic fovea I mentioned (I. c. p. 262) as be- 

 longing to this insect is seen only in my first specimen, and 

 is uot a characteristic of the species. The anterior angle 



