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each side about the middle close to the lateral margins and two 

 at the base near the posterior angles, white. 



Scutellum faintly punctured, fulvous with a fine impressed 

 white line. 



Elytra with the suture and two longitudinal carina? on each, 

 strongly elevated and smooth, the disc with rows of coarse, 

 shallow, and niimerous smaller punctures, the sides and apex 

 coarsely strigose ; fulvous, the suture narrowly black. 



Pygidium finely transversely strigose, reddish fulvous, sides 

 piceous, with a large round spot on each side at the base, white. 



Beneath blackish-green, shining, with large white patches 

 at the sides ; mesosternal process long, narrow and curved ; 

 abdomen with a central row of Avhite spots in the longitudinal 

 depression, and a white stripe at the sides of each segment ; 

 legs slender, pale red, tarsi pitchy-black, the femora with a longi- 

 tudinal white stripe on their outer side. 



The female is rather broader and more strongly punctured 

 with the central line of the thorax only slightly indicated, and 

 the spots smaller, the pygidium is shorter and the abdomen is 

 convex without the central row of spots. 



Angola. 



Closely allied to G. ongolensis, Westw., but differs in its 

 broader and more quadrate form, stronger punctuation, colour 

 of legs, the markings on its thorax, and in not having the 

 anterior margin of its clypeus produced into a point in the 

 centre. 



Gnathocera lurida^ n. sp. 



G. pallide fulva, nitida ; capite viridi, iitrinque maculis tribus 

 albis ; tliorace plaga media magna viridi, hnea media longi- 

 tudinali, macula utrinque antice, vittaque brevi postice albis ; 

 sciitello viridi, linea media alba. Long. 11-12 mm. 



Head coarsely and irregularly strigose, the base closely punc- 

 tured, sides of clypeus sharply elevated, the apical points acute 

 and convergent at their tips, anterior margin semi- circularly 

 emarginate ; dark green, shining, a small spot on each side at 

 the base, two elongate spots on the forehead, and two at the 

 base of the clypeus white ; antennas pitchy. 



Thorax somewhat abruptly narrowed from the middle, the 

 disc rather finely punctured, the puncttires coarser at the sides ; 



