INSECTA. 205 



Of cylindrical shape; the head broad and flat, the vertex 

 black, closely and strongly punctured; the eyes very widely 

 separated, but slightly emarginate; the lower portion of the 

 face fulvous, very deeply excavated, the excavation bounded at 

 the sides by a sharp edge ; antennae short, black, the lower five 

 joints fulvous, the terminal joints gradually widened ; thorax 

 about twice as broad as long, subcylindrical, the lateral margins 

 straight at the base, rounded in front, the surface very closely 

 punctured, fulvous, the extreme basal margin black ; scutellum 

 black, its apex truncate; elytra cylindrical, flavous, the extreme 

 basal margin and a spot at the shoulder black, the disk dis- 

 tinctly punctate-striate ; the interstices very finely punctured 

 and here and there transversely wrinkled ; pygidium piceous, 

 strongly punctured ; underside and the femora black ; the coxae, 

 base of the femora and that of the tibiae fulvous ; prosternum 

 with a triangular tooth at the middle of the basal margin, 

 fulvous. 



A single specimen, differing from the other known species by 

 the different coloration and the very deep facial excavation. 



(M. Jacoby.) 



Fam. EUMOLPID.E. 



Colasposoma pubescens, Lefevre. Pretoria. 



Euryope terminalis, Baly. Pretoria. 



Calomorpha wahlbergi, Stal. Durban, Natal. 



Pseudocolaspis sericataj Marsh. Pretoria. 



Corynodes compressicornis, Fabr. Pretoria. 



Menius distanti, sp. n. Pretoria. 



Description. 

 Menius distanti, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 6.) 



Piceous; the basal and apical joints of the antennae and the 

 legs fulvous ; head and thorax not very closely and strongly 

 punctured ; elytra dark or pale fulvous, regularly and strongly 

 punctate-striate. 



Length 1J line. 



Head strongly punctured, the vertex piceous, deeply sulcate 

 above the eyes, the lower portion fulvous ; antennae only ex- 



