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more or less fulvous ; llie tibiae and tarsi flavous, the latter 

 broad, their tirst joint not much longer than the second. 



Hah. Pretoria. 



Of this species seven specimens were obtained by Mr. Dis- 

 tant ; it is another addition to the little group of black-striped 

 species described by Lacordaire and Lefevre, but is much 

 larger than either of them, and differs in the colour of the an- 

 tenna, and that of the legs and abdomen ; in some specimens 

 there is an indication of three blackish spots on the thorax, 

 placed triangularly. 



Gynandrophihalma atripennis^ Lac. Pretoria. 



All the specimens obtained by Mr. Distant belong to the 

 variety in which the apex of the elytra is fulvous ; this is 

 probably the normal form, and the one with entirely black 

 elytra which served Lacordaire for the type is the variety. 



Melitonoma pi'ctipennis, sp. n. 



Black, the labrum and the basal joints of the antennae 

 fulvous ; thorax with the anterior and lateral margins and a 

 central stripe flavous ; elytra closely punctured, flavous, a 

 broad lateral stripe from the base to below the middle, two 

 spots near the suture, and a ring-shaped mark near the apex 

 black ; legs fulvous. 



Length 5 millirn. 



Head black, closely rugose, the vertex finely punctured, 

 the interstices sparingly clothed with very short silvery 

 pubescence, the anterior margin of the clypeus triangularly 

 emarginate ; labrum and palpi fulvous ; autennaj not ex- 

 tending to the base of the thorax, the lower five joints fulvous, 

 the others black, the fifth and following joints transversely 

 widened ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 rather strongly rounded near the base, narrowed towards the 

 apex ; posterior angles rounded, the surface rather closely 

 impressed with larger and smaller punctures, black, the ante- 

 rior and lateral margins narrowly flavous, this colour also 

 divides the black portion at the middle in shape of a narrow 

 short stripe; scutellum black, shining, triangular, its apex 

 rounded ; elytra closely and rather strongly punctured, the 

 interstices very minutely granulate, flavous ; a narrow lateral 

 stripe, not extending to the apex, a spot before and anotlier 

 below the middle placed near llic suture, as well as an annular 

 mark near the apex, black : underside black, finely pubescent; 

 legs fulvous, tlie upper edge of the femora with a piceous 



