412 Rev. H. 8. Gorham on 
This insect is almost a mimic of Cyrtaulis sellata, described 
in the present paper, and is, it will be observed, from the same 
locality (Malvern). Although I am not sure that it is 
correctly referred by me to Hwochomus, and Crotch has 
referred another species (1. wropygialis, Muls.) to Brumus 
expressly on the ground of its pubescence, I do not think 
that character alone sufficient to cause their exclusion. 
The single example sent was found on Justicia origanoides, 
a plant of the natural order Acanthacex ; 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 flayo mediano, ad marginem duplo magis quam ad 
suturam approximato, 
Long, 2 millim. 
Hab, Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). 
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. ‘he thorax is transverse, 
its base inclined on each side as in Chilocorus; a very fine 
warginal 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. 
Platynaspis obscura, sp. n. 
Fere hemispherica, nigra, breviter densius cinereo-pubescens ; 
elytris rufo-brunneis, apicem versus nigricantibus, nitidis. 
Long. 3°5 millim. 
Mas, capite angulisque anticis prothoracis aurantiacis. 
Femina, capite prothoraceque nigris. 
Hab. Natal, Malvern, Isipingo, Umkomaas River (J/ar- 
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 
uearly continuous outline with the elytra, transverse, its 
front angles much depressed and its base with an exceedingly 
