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1882. | SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 
Length 2-25 lines. 
Hab. Australia. 
Head impunctate, with a short transverse groove between the eyes, 
the latter very large, black. Antenne rather closely approached, 
the four basal joints flavous, the rest piceous, joints 2 and 3 
very short. Thorax transverse, the sides slightly rounded, anterior 
margin straight, posterior much rounded ; surface impunctate, flavous. 
Elytra very closely and finely punctured, with a transverse rufous band 
at the base, the posterior margin of which is irregularly sinuate, and 
a small spot of the same colour situated behind the middle and close 
to the sutural margin. Underside and legs flavous. Breast shining 
black. 
Two specimens are contained in my collection,received from the 
Mus. Godeffroy at Hamburg. 
Mawacosoma, Chey. 
12. MALACOSOMA POLITUM, Sp. nov. 
Oblong, convex, black. Thorax fulvous, impunctate ; elytra 
testaceous, extremely minutely punctured; legs and antenne black. 
Length 3 lines. 
Hab. South Africa. 
Head black, pubescent, with a more or less distinct central longi- 
tudinal groove at the vertex. Antenne short and robust; the 
second joint the shortest ; the third and fourth joints of equal length ; 
the rest subcylindrical, slightly thickened. Thorax transversely 
convex, its sides rounded, especially anteriorly, the anterior angles 
slightly tuberculate; surface convex, entirely impunctate, fulvous. 
Seutellum black. Hiytra convex, impunctate like the thorax, or 
visibly punctured only when seen under a strong lens; testaceous, 
very shining. Underside and legs rather thickly covered with 
yellow pubescence. 
The highly polished upper surface of the present species, which is 
totally impunctate, will distinguish it from MW. lusitanicum, with which 
it agrees in coloration. 
Collection Jacoby. 
13, MALACOSOMA QUADRIMACULATUM, Sp. Nov. 
Oblong, testaceous ; antennee, tibice, and tarsi black ; elytra very 
finely punctured, testaceous, a small longitudinal spot at the base 
and a band from base to apex, greatly narrowed anteriorly, black. 
Length 3 lines. 
Hab. Natal. 
Head convex, very minutely punctured, with a distinct transverse 
sinuate groove between the eyes. Antenne half the length of the 
body ; second joint short ; third and fourth joints elongate, of equal 
length ; the basal one fulvons, the rest black. Thorax narrowly trans- 
verse, nearly three times as broad as long; surface distinctly but 
irregularly punctured, fulvous. Scutellum nearly semicircular, flavous, 
smooth. Elytra rather more finely and closely punctured than the 
thorax, of the same colour as the latter; each elytron with an elongate 
