^192 ON COLKOPTERA FROM CENTRAL AFKICA. [Juiie 17, 



general colour, ?. e. tawny brown with the black and white marks 

 less clear, to Eastern Equatorial Africa, at Zanzibar and Mombasa. 



NiPHONA soBDiDA, FlhraBus, Ofvers. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1872, p. 35 

 {Hecyrida). 



Many examples, not differing except in the elongate black spot in 

 the middle of the sides of the elytra being black only on its inner 

 border, thus forming a curved line. Ffthraeus places the species in 

 the genus Hecynda, but if our species is the same, the bidentate and 

 fasciculate apices of the elytra and the subparallel claws show it to 

 be a NipTiona. Von Harold says that the H. cqypendiadata of 

 Gerstacker is the same species, but does not mention the position of 

 the claws. It has a wide range. I have seen examples from 

 Grahamstown and Caffraria and Camcroons. Gerstacker records it 

 from Eastern Africa, at Lake Jipe. 



NtrPSEEHA HOMETERI, HaTold. 



One example. Von Harold records it from Pungo Andongo on 

 the river Quanza. 



Glexea fasciata, Fabr. 



Found also at Cameroons and Cape Coast Castle. Volumnia 

 calabarka, Thorns., is the same or a nearly allied species. 



Glenea CHETROiATii, Murray. 



This species is also widely distributed along the West Coast. I 

 have seen examples from Old Calabar, Cameroons, and the Batanga 

 coast, and from Angola. 



VOLTJMNIA WE8TERMANN1, Thomson. 



A single example, agreeing with the typical form from Natal. 

 The species occurs also in East Africa, from Bagamoyo to the 

 interior. 



Volumnia i.eucomel^na, n. sp. 



V. morosae {Fascoe) proxime ti^nis. Srqn-a nigra, elytris utrinqxte, 

 linea oLliqua a medio basi usque ad stituram, sutura deinde ad 

 apicem, fascia curvata angvsta mediana alteraque anyusiiore un- 

 didata pirope apicem, albis, fronte yrisea ; thorace vitta laterali 

 et linen, plerumqiie obsoleta, dorsali albis ; scuteVo antennisque 

 niyris; co>'p>ore subtus niyro-yrisescente, vitta laterali a cnjnte 

 usque ad anum extensa, altera oblique pectorali ventreque vittis 

 medianis dualnis sordide albis ; supra sat grosse punctata. An- 

 iennce articulis primo et tertio quam in V. westermanni longi- 

 oribiis, tertio quam quarto fere duplo longiore, apice hand 

 nodosa ; elytra prope apic^m magis angustata, breviter truncata. 



Long. 15—18 millim. 



Several examples. Distinguished at once by the deep black 

 colour of its upper surface, even in the apical area of the elytra, 

 which is ocbrcoLis and light brown in V. murosa. 



