412 Hev. H. S. Goiluim on 



This insect is almost a mimic of Ci/rtault's sellata, described 

 in tlie present paper, and is, it will be observed, from the same 

 locality (Malvern). Altiiough I am not sure tliat it is 

 correctly referred by me to Exochomus, and Crotch has 

 referred another species {E. iiropygialis, Muls.) to Brumun 

 expressly on the ground of its pubescence, I do not think 

 that character alone sufficient to cause their exclusion. 



The single example sent was iowndi on J usticia or iganoides, 

 a jilant of the natural order Acanthaceaj; and it would be 

 interesting to know whether it feeds on scale or aphis and 

 whether in company with the Cyrtaulis. 



Lotis bipunctiger, sp. n. 



Orbicularis, niger fere glaber; elytrorum margine modice expanso, 

 disco puncto flavo raediano, ad margiuem duplo magis quam ad 

 suturam approximato. 



Long. 2 millim. 



JIah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Mai-shall) . 



The colour of this little insect is jetty black, excepting the 

 red spot on each elytron, which is placed at one third of the 

 width of the disk from the margin. The thorax is transverse, 

 its base inclined on each side as in ChUocoriis ; a very fine 

 marginal line in its middle; a depression runs across from 

 the corner of the frontal excavation, and is represented on the 

 elytra by a small and vague fossa. The angles and sides of 

 the thorax appear to be finely coriaceous and subpubescent. 



Plafgnasjyis ohscura, sp. n. 



Fere hemisphajrica, nigra, breviter densius cinereo-pubescens ; 



clytris rufo-brunneis, apicem versus nigricantibus, nitidis. 

 Long. 3"5 millim. 



Mas, capite angulisquc anticis prothoracis aurantiacis. 

 Femina, capita prothoraceque nigris. 



Hab. Natal, Malvern, Isipingo, Umkomaas River {Mar- 

 shall). 



The punctuation of this species is very fine, close, and 

 obsolete; that on the head and thorax is just visible under a 

 Coddington lens. It is black, with red legs and red elytra, 

 which become suffused with black towards the apex ; in some 

 specimens this is only visible as a small cloud towards and 

 before the apex, while in others the whole apex is blackish. 

 The pubescence is short and pruinose. The thorax is of 

 nearly continuous outline with the elytra, transverse, its 

 Iront angles much depressed and its base with an exceedingly 



