114 South African Beetles 
ARSINOE 0’NEILI, sp. nov. 
Head, palpi (tips lighter) and first three joints of antenne red, 
the remaining joints darker. Prothorax, underneath and the legs 
fulvescent. Elytra black, with on either side an elongate spot 
reaching from base to about one-quarter of its length, covering the 
intervals 4-7; a smaller sub-apical rounded spot near to, but not 
reaching, suture. Head and prothorax deeply punctulated. The 
vertex of head and sides of the prothorax more coarsely so. The 
prothorax is of the usual shape, but the lateral margins above the 
basal angles are less sinuated and recurved than in A. guadri-guttata. 
Elytral-strie hardly perceptible, and the intervals finely punctulated. 
Length 7} mm. Width 3 mm. 
Hab. Salisbury, Rhodesia. Received from my friend Rev. J. A. 
O’Neil, S.J., whose correspondence and help through a long term of 
years has been of much encouragement and the greatest interest to me. 
In coloration, pattern, and in the lesser constriction of the 
prothorax at the basal angles, this species approximates to the facies 
of Lobodontus gentilis, Pér., which also occurs in the same neighbour- 
hood. 
LOBODONTUS CONJUNCTUS, sp. nov. 
Head black, with centre of vertex, frontal, and mouth parts piceous 
red; mandibles tipped with black. Antenne, legs and underneath red ; 
the abdomen piceous marginally. Prothorax black, very narrowly 
margined with reddish. Elytra black, with on either side of the base 
an elongate sub-quadrate reddish flavescent patch, reaching from the 
shoulder to about one-third its length and covering the intervals from 
the fourth to their junction with a reddish marginal band. On either 
side of the suture above the apex two small laterally rounded spots 
which coalesce and form an ovate patch a little indented anteriorly. 
Vertex and base of the head smooth and shiny. Prothorax: apical 
angles sharply produced forward; lateral sides gently rounded to 
about middle and thence sinuately narrowed to the basal angle which 
is sharp; margins narrowly recurved. Elytra shiny ; punctato-striate 
with the intervals slightly convex. Two punctures on the third 
interval, and the lateral margins foveately punctured from shoulder 
to apex. 
The pattern and coloration are almost identical with those of 
L. trisignatus, Chaud., but in the narrower, more sinuate shape of 
the prothorax and the more robustly formed head it approximates to 
species of the genus Arsinoe. But for the palpi, which are those 
