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enter the group Monoleptince. It differs from any genera 

 contained in it by the unarmed femora and the different shape 

 of the thorax. The single species obtained bears some 

 resemblance to the genus Antipha, Baly, with which it 

 agrees in most structural characters, but not in the structure 

 of the elytral epipleurse. 



Agelacida marginata, sp. n. 



Black ; head fulvous, with an ceneous spot ; thorax finely 

 punctured, metallic green, the sides fulvous ; elytra very 

 finely and closely punctured and finely wrinkled, metallic 

 green, the lateral margins narrowly and the apex broadly 

 fulvous. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



Head broad, impunctate, fulvous, the vertex with an oblong 

 greenish-jeneous spot, the frontal elevations narrowly trans- 

 verse, deeply grooved behind, the clypeus triangular, narrow ; 

 antenna not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, 

 nearly all the joints, with the exception of the second, of 

 equal length, the intermediate joints slightly widened ; thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, the anterior margin straight, 

 its angles sliglitly tuberculiform, the sides very little rounded, 

 the posterior angles obsolete, slightly oblique, the setiferous 

 pore placed in front of the posterior margin, the surface very 

 closely and finely punctured, with some larger punctures 

 intermixed, the disk (in shape of a broad transverse patch) 

 metallic green, the sides fulvous; an obsolete transverse de- 

 pression is placed below the anterior margin; scutellum 

 broad, black ; elytra very closely and finely punctured, with 

 finely wrinkled interstices, metallic green, the lateral margins 

 and the apex more broadly fulvous : underside and legs 

 black, finely pubescent. 



Hah. Johannesburg, Pretoria. 



PlatyxantJia scutellata, Jac. Pretoria. 

 Candezea Jlaveola, Gerst. Delagoa Bay. 

 Monohpta hioculata, Fabr. Cape Colony : Wynberg. 

 Monolepta intermedia, E-its. Johannesburg, Zoutpansberg. 

 Monolepta bifasciata, Fabr. Barberton, Durban. 

 Monolepta S-maculata, Jac. Barberton. 

 Monolepta dichroa, Alld. Barberton, Durban. 

 Monolepta pauperata, Erichs. Natal : Maritzburg. 



