56 MR, M. JACOBY ON NEW GENERA AND [Jan. 3, 
Head with a few fine punctures, flavous, a rhomboidal spot at the 
middle and one on each side at the base black. Antenne black, 
the second and third joints and the apex of the terminal one fulvous. 
Thorax nearly three times as broad as long, the sides very moderately 
rounded, anterior angles acute; surface finely and not very closely 
punctured on the disk, much more closely towards the sides ; a broad 
subquadrate irregular-shaped black spot is situated at each side, and 
connected anteriorly with a small round spot, another oblong one 
being placed in the middle of the base. Scutellum black. Elytra 
extremely closely subrugulose punctate, black, the margins narrowly 
testaceous, but interrupted at the apex by an elongation of the black 
portion; an elongate pear-shaped testaceous spot extends from the 
middle of the base in an oblique direction to the middle of the elytra. 
Underside closely pubescent. 
Four specimens of this well marked species are contained in my 
collection. The design of the elytra and thorax will distinguish this 
insect from any of its allies. 
GALERUCID&. 
Lurrropes, Motsch. 
10. LUPERODES MARGINATUS, Sp. Nov. 
Oblong, convex, light flavous below. Antenne, their basal joints 
excepted, piceous. Above pale olive-green, extreme lateral margins 
of the elytra and their epipleure black. 
Length 3 lines. 
Hab. Africa, Lagos. 
Head not longer than broad, with a well marked transverse groove 
between the eyes, finely punctate, the latter black, prominent. An- 
tennee two thirds the length of the body, obscure piceous, the two 
or three basal joints flavous, joints 2 and 3 very short, of nearly 
equal length, the rest filiform and slender. Thorax narrowly trans- 
verse, its sides straight and narrowed from base to apex, the angles 
obtuse and rather rounded ; surface like the head, very minutely punc- 
tured. Scutellum triangular. Elytra convex, parallel, more dis- 
tinctly punctured than the thorax, of a very pale greenish tint, with 
the lateral and apical margins black; this colour is narrowed gra- 
dually towards the base, where it is very narrow. Underside and legs 
flavous, finely pubescent ; last abdominal segment in some specimens 
black. 
Collection Jacoby. 
The genus Luperodes, resembling in its general appearance the 
genus Monolepta, may be known by the very long first tarsal joint of 
the posterior legs, the tibize of which are armed with a long spine, in 
connexion with the open anterior coxal cavities. 
11, LUrPERODES AUSTRALIS, Sp. Noy. 
Oblong, convex, flavous; apical joints of the antenne, and the 
breast, black ; elytra minutely punctured, flavous, the base and a 
small spet below the middle rufous, 
