by C. N. Barker. 105 
surface of the elytra is shagreen punctate, with shallow strie and a 
somewhat dense reddish pubescence. Vertex of head nearly smooth, 
faintly aciculate. Prothorax shallowly plicate punctate, sparsely 
pubescent, sub-cordate, margins recurved and with a strongly defined 
median groove. 
Length 8 mm. Width 3} mm. 
Hab. Ubombo, Zululand. Collected by H. W. Bell Marley. One 
example. 
A robust looking insect of the Armiger group. 
CREPIDOGASTER MATONGA, Sp. NOV. 
Head, prothorax and antenne light brick red. Prosternum, legs 
and basal joint of antenn of a lighter testaceous colour. Elytra 
black without markings; abdomen reddish fuscous laterally darker ; 
exposed dorsal segments nearly black. Antenne long about 11 mm. 
or nearly as long as the insect. Prothorax elongate cordate, much 
drawn in at base which is truncate and broadly grooved on either side ; 
the lateral margins briefly reflexed; immediately below the apex a 
fine carinate, slightly sinuate transverse line, which does not quite 
reach the apical angles and is intersected in the middle by the median 
line. Both head and prothorax are finely shagreened. Elytra closely 
shagreened ; strive shallow, but clearly defined; briefly pubescent ; 
the pubescence black. Shoulders narrow but very prominent; ovately, 
but not largely, ampliated ; the apex deeply emarginate. 
Length 11} mm. Width, a trifle over 5 mm. 
Hab. Ngxwala Hill, Zululand. Collected by L. Bevis. 
CREPIDOGASTER MARGINICOLLIS, Sp. nov. 
Head, palpi, first two joints of antennz, legs and beneath testaceous 
yellow ; legs a shade lighter than head and prothorax. The lateral 
margins of the prothorax, elytra and the second and third joints of 
the antenne infuscated. The remaining joints of the antenne light 
red. The elytra are of the same testaceous ground colour clouded 
over the whole surface with fuscous brown, except only ill-defined 
basal and sub-apical patches. The basal or scutellar patch is composed 
of coalescing inter-strie rays, and on either side of it are two 
further narrow ill-defined rays, all of which reach from base to about 
one-third of the length of the elytra. Close to the lateral margins 
and a short distance above apex, a small transverse ray-like yellowish 
spot, also somewhat ill-defined. Exposed dorsal segments of abdomen 
dark brown, Head, prothorax and elytra very closely punctulate and 
