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tending to the base of the elytra, fulvous, the eighth and ninth 

 joints piceous, the second joint slightly longer and thicker than 

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

 at the middle, the sides rounded, the surface deeply but not very 

 closely punctured, leaving a smooth central longitudinal space; 

 elytra slightly depressed below the base, rather lighter in colour 

 than the thorax, deeply and regularly punctate- striate, the in- 

 terstices impunctate but convex at the sides, the shoulders 

 prominent : underside piceous ; legs fulvous ; prosternum longer 

 than broad, slightly narrowed between the coxae. 



The two specimens obtained differ slightly in the colour of 

 the elytra, which are much paler in one than in the other; the 

 species is allied to M. chalceatus, Lefevre, but differs in the 

 more strongly punctured thorax, the flat interstices of the elytra 

 (the sides excepted), and in the fulvous legs. (M. Jacoby.} 



Fam. CHKYSOMELIDJE. 



Chrysomela opulenta, Reiche. Pretoria. 



Polysticta clarkii, Baly. Pretoria; Durban, Natal. 



Podontia nigrotessellata, Baly. Pretoria. 



Fam. GrALERUCIDJE. 



Aulacoj}hora vinula, Erichs. Pretoria. 



Hyperacantha oculata, Karsch. Pretoria. 



Asbecesta cyanipennis, Harold. Zoutpansberg. 



Sphteroderma indica, Fabr. Pretoria. 



Mnidea pretoria, sp. n. Pretoria. 



Monolepta flaveola, Gerst. Durban, Natal. 



Spilocephalus viridipennis, Jac. Pretoria. 



Ootheca modesta, sp. n. Pretoria. 



Notes and Descriptions. 

 (By C. J. GAHAN, M.A., F.E.S.) 



Ootheca modesta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) 



Testaceous ; underside of body (abdomen and sides of pro- 

 thorax excepted), legs, and scutellum black. Sides of prothorax 



