ni'w Species of Cohoptera, 521 



specie?, and is not merely one of the many colour-varieties 

 ot it. Its brown coloration is peculiar and practically in- 

 variable, and it is very distinctly more elongate than C. po^y- 

 chroa. The females are at once distinguishable by the curious 

 prolongation of the tips of the elytra, and the males have the 

 liind femora strongly curved. 



Leiicocelis cohaltinuSj sp. n. 



Xiger, nitidus, prothoracis lateribus anguste rufis elytrisque obscure 

 caeruleis, corpora elongate, subtus parce setose ; capita dense 

 punctate, clypeo anguste, leviter bifido ; pretherace leviter punc- 

 tate, autice paulo densius, marginibus lateralibus medio angulatis, 

 pestice fera parallelis, anguHs posticis distinctis, basi regulariter 

 arcuata ; elytris grease seriato-punctatis, striis 2 vel 3 pesticis ; 

 pygidio irregulariter annulato-punetate ; metasterai medio parcis- 

 sime punctate, processu sat late, retundate : 



(S , abdomine subtus paulo excavate, segmento ultimo medio 

 minute producto, tarsis posticis multo longioribus. 



Long. 12-13'5 mm. ; lat. max. 6-7 mm. 



JIah. E. Mashonaland : Chirinda Forest. 



This is a rather la'-ge species, devoid of white spots, and 

 black, with the exception of the elytra, which are indigo- or 

 cobalt-blue, and a narrow red lateral border upon each side 

 of t!ie pronotum, 



LeucoceJis ichthyurus, sp. n. 



Xiger, nitidus, clypeo, antennis pygidioqne Isete rufis, maculis parvis 

 albis inconspicua ornate, quarum 2 prothoracis lateralibus, 2 sub- 

 basalibus, elytrorum fascia medianainterrupta transversa punctis- 

 qua nonnullis posticis ; capita tote crebre punctate, clypeo autice 

 leviter incise ; pretherace fortiter punctate, medio laeviore, lateri- 

 bus strigesis, basi omniiio regulariter curvato, marginibus late- 

 ralibus pestica paulo divergentibus, angulis posticis distinctis ; 

 elytris fortiter seriato-punctatis, pestice distincta striatis, ad 

 suturam spinose productis ; pygidio opaco, parce punctate ; 

 cerpore subtus sat grisee-setoso, processu sternali late, parum 

 producto : 



J , tibiae posticce calcare interne gracilissimo, curvato. 



$ , pygidio medio lata sulcato, fere bicuspidato, segmento ventrali 

 ultimo postice late fulvo-eiliate. 



Long. 10-11*5 mm. ; lat. max. 5-5"5 mm. 



JIah. Mashonaland : Salisbury, Chirinda Forest. 



I have seen a considerable number of specimens of this. 

 It is very nearly related to L. ruhriceps^ Raffray, and may 

 possibly prove to be a local race of it. It is a little larger 



Ann,& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. iii. 36 



