248 Mr. O. E. Janson's Notices of 



shallow depressions placed obliquely on each side of tlie disc ; 

 black, slightly shining, the two basal depressions (and sometimes 

 the central two) with a small white spot. 



ScuteUum much produced and very acute at the apex, longi- 

 tudinally impressed ; black. 



Elytra Avith the suture and two carinse 0:1 each moderately 

 elevated, the interstices with irregularly coarsely punctate strife 

 and scattered fine punctures, the sides and apex with confluent 

 punctures, a large shallow depression behind the scutellum and 

 a smaller deeper one on the shoulders ; pitchj^-black, shining, 

 fourteen sin,all white spots on each, arranged thus, one on the 

 basal margin, one in the humeral depression, four along the 

 suture, two between the carinte, two outside the outer carina 

 and four along the lateral margin. 



Pygidium closely and irregularly strigose, sparsely pubescent •, 

 pitchy-black, several small spots at the base and a larger one on 

 each side, close to the margin, white. 



Beneath and legs strigose, shining black with sparse golden 

 pubescence ; abdomen with transverse rows of coarse punctures, 

 a small white spot at the sides of the four basal segments ; 

 mesosternal process short, finely punctured, rounded at the 

 apex ; anterior tibia? with three obtuse lateral teeth, the upper 

 one almost obsolete, the apical one long. 



Lake Nyassa. 



Allied to C. iJerinutans, Burm., but very distinct. A few 

 specimens taken by Mr. F. A. Simons near Livingstonia, are the 

 only ones I have seen. 



Lomaptera yorkiana (Thoms.), n. sp. 



L. laetc viridis, nitida; thorace lateribus medio sub-explanatis, 

 tenuiter parce punctatis ; pygidio medio transversim acute 

 carinato. Long. 25-27 mm. 



Bright green very shining. 



Head sparsely punctured at the base, the punctures finer and 

 very dense at the apex ; sides of the clypeus straight scarcely 

 elevated, obliquely narrowed in fi-ont, the apical points acute, 

 the emargination deep and triangular ; antenna3 black tinged 

 with green, the apex reddish. 



Tho7'ax convex, broad, the sides almost straight for about two 

 thirds from the base, thence abruptly narrowed, anterior margin 

 slightly })roduccd over the head, posterior lobe large, nearly 



