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



punctui-ed and strigose, the disc ratliev sj^arsely jiuljesceiit, more 

 densely so at the sides ; each with eight im]:iressed white spots, 

 ai'rauged thus, two close together on the third carina before the 

 middle, one close to the suture just behind the middle, (jue, 

 also sutural, about one-fifth from the apex, three along the 

 lateral margin and one close to the apical sutural angle. 



Pugidiviii very finely strigose with rather dense short pubes- 

 cence. 



Beneath closely strigose, and with dense pubescence at the 

 sides ; mesosternal process broad and flat, rounded at the apex, 

 punctured, and with an impressed longitudinal line ; abdomen 

 Avith scattered punctures in the centre, the penultimate segment 

 closely punctured ; legs punctured and pubescent, anterior tibia; 

 with three lateral teeth, the first somewhat obsolete, the second 

 large and jJi'omiuent, the apical one very long and curved, 

 posterior tibia; Avith the inner apical spine large, broad and 

 concave on its outer side, the two basal joints of the tarsi 

 acutely produced on eacli side. 



Livingstouia, Lake Nyassa. 



A very peculiar species resembhng ^4. variabilis, G. P. {Macro- 

 minus spinitaims, M. Ly.), in the armature of its legs. 



Oxythyrea lucens, n. sp. 



O. nigra, nitida, thorace lateribus late rufis, vitta marginali 

 macuhsque tribus iitrinque albis ; elytris leete viridibus, uitidis- 

 simis, linea marginah interrupta maculisque plurimis albis ; 

 pygidio rufo. Long. 10 mm. 



Head rather closely and finely punctiu-ed, the clypeus very 

 finely punctured in front, impressed on each side, the sides 

 shghtly rounded, the apex elevated on each side, the centre 

 shghtly impressed ; shining black ; antenuEe black with the apex 

 reddish. 



Thorax very finely and sparsely punctm-ed, the punctures 

 coarser and much closer in front, the sides rather prominent in 

 the middle, posterior margin strongly rounded ; bright red, the 

 centre broadly black, shining, a broad, irregular stripe on each 

 side close to the margin, and a longitudinal row of three sjiots 

 on each side of the disc, impressed and white. 



Scutellum acute at the apex, impunctate ; shhiing black. 



Elytra abruptly narrowed behind the shoulders, shghtly 

 dilated behind the middle, sulcata on the disc and along the 



