346 j\Ir. M. Jacobj on Phytophagous Cohoptera 



Clttmin^. 

 Miopristis Distantly sp. n. 



Black, labrum and mandibles flavous ; head closely punc- 

 tured ; tliorax transverse, impunctate, flavous, with two large 

 black patches; elytra pale testaceous, finely punctured, the 

 sutural and lateral margins posteriorly and a spot on the 

 shoulders black. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head closely punctured at the vertex, finely rugose at the 

 lower portion, the clypeus triangularly emarginate, its lower 

 edge flavous as well as the labrum and the mandibles ; 

 antennas extending to the base of the thorax, twelve-jointed, 

 black, the lower two joints flavous, the intermediate joints 

 more strongly widened than the others, apical joint very 

 narrow ; thorax about one and a half times broader than 

 long, convex, the sides strongly rounded as well as all the 

 angles, the anterior margin preceded at the middle by a short 

 but deep and strongly punctured transverse groove, posterior 

 margin scarcely lobed at the middle, the surface entirely im- 

 punctate, flavous, the entire sides occupied by a large black 

 ovate patch not extending to the lateral margins ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra pale testaceous, finely punctured in semiregular 

 rows ; a sutural and lateral narrow stripe, abbreviated ante- 

 riorly and posteriorly, and a small humeral spot black ; the 

 breast and abdomen black, clothed with silvery pubescence ; 

 legs flavous, the anterior ones very elongate, their tibiee 

 curved, with a piceous upper margin, the apex mucronate ; 

 the anterior tarsi elongate, piceous. 



Hah. Pretoria. A single specimen. 



A typical representative of the genus and closely allied to 

 M. vatalensi's, Jac, but at once distinguished by the smooth, 

 shining, and impunctate thorax and the semiregular elytral 

 punctuation. 



elytra impressicollis, sp. n. 



Elongate, parallel, black ; thorax finely punctured, the 

 sides with a deep sinuate fovea ; elytra finely and rather 

 closely punctured, fulvous. 



Length 11 millim. 



Head deeply depressed between the eyes, black, the latter 

 surrounded by some fulvous pubescence, the vertex uith a 

 deep central groove swollen, finely punctured, and strigose ; 

 anterior edge of the clypeus scmicircularly emarginate ; an- 

 tennae black, extending to the base of the thorax, the fourth 

 and following joints transversely serrate ; thorax about two 



