CALLISPA. 9 



produced antcrioiiy into a short subacute process, which forms the 

 upper termination of a longitudinal ridge on the face ; eyes and 

 antennae black. Thorax transverse, more than half as broad 

 again as long; sides nearly straight, rounded and narrowed in 

 front ; anterior margin indistinctly excavated, its middle slightly 

 produced, convex ; siu'face smooth ; sides depressed, covered with 

 coarse punctirres ; disc convex, its punctuiing less crowded, a 

 broad longitudinal space in the centre impunctate. Scutellum 

 subquadrate, impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, ovate ; 

 margin broadly dilated, deflexed ; apex rounded ; above smooth 

 and shining, moderately convex, indistinctly flattened along the 

 suture, deeply punctate-striate, puncturing finer near the apex, 

 coarser and more deeply impressed on the dilated border. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Unique in the British Museum, 



10. Callispa nigripes, n. sp. B.M. 



C. elongata, pallide fulva ; antennis, pcdibus pleurisquc nigris. 

 Long. 2f-3i Kn. 



C. elongate, pale fulvous. Head above convex, impunctate, sKghtly 

 produced in front, acute ; antennae and mouth black. Thorax 

 transverse, twice as broad as long ; apical margin slightly exca- 

 vated ; sides narrowly margined, straight near the base, regularly 

 rounded in front ; surface convex in the middle, excavated on 

 either side, coarsely punctured, punctiuing crowded and subvario- 

 lose on the excavated portion and outer border, scattered and 

 more distant on the disc ; at the base of the latter is a small deep 

 fovea. Scutellum shining, impimctate. Elytra scarcely wider 

 than the base of the thorax ; sides parallel, narrowly margined ; 

 apex rounded ; above moderately convex, pimctatc-striate, inter- 

 stices towards the sides obsoletely elevated. Beneath shining; 

 fulvous ; legs and pleiu'ae black. 



Hah. South Africa. 



British Museum, and collection of J. S. Baly. 



11. Callispa Natalensis, n. sp, B.M. 



C. elongata, modice convexa, nigra, nitida ; capite thoraccque testa- 

 ceis ; elytris punctato-striatis, margine obsciu'e piccis ; genubus 

 tarsisque nifo-piceis. 



Long. 2i lin. 



C. elongate, moderately convex, shining black ; head and thorax 

 bright testaceous red ; knees and tarsi rufo-piceous. Head finely 

 punctuiTd, produced and aiigled in front, its apex obtuse ; vertex 

 flattened, impressed in its middle with a short longitiuHnal groove ; 

 antennoe entirely black ; eyes piceous. Thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long ; sides narrowly margined, nearly straight at their 



