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margins of the ground-colour. In the type the elytral band is 

 strongly narrowed near the middle and in the variety it is entirely 

 divided into two spots. 



Amphimela oenata Jac. 



Aherral'wn. Thorax and elytra yellowish white, the latter with 

 the suture, a spot on the shoulder, another at the apex, a short 

 transverse band at the middle, and a very small spot near the 

 scutellum black : antennae and legs pale testaceous, the posterior 

 femora black. 



Hah. Isipingo, Xatal {G. Marshall). 



This variety or aberration I must refer to the species previously 

 described by me, but the elytral bands have been reduced to spots ; 

 the latter exactly indicate the position of the bands in the type, the 

 sculpturing and everything else is the same. 



Allomoepha africaxa, sp. n. 



Below fuscous or piceous, the head and thorax pale fulvous, finely 

 wrinkled and pubescent ; antennse (the basal joints excepted) black ; 

 elytra flavous, finel)' granulate and punctured, the sutural and 

 lateral margins piceous ; legs flarous, the posterior femora piceous 

 at the apex. 



Length 2|-3 millira. 



Head very finely punctured and granulate, the frontal tubercles 

 short and broad but distinct : eyes ovate, entire, rather large ; 

 antennae nearly as long as the body, black, the lower three joints 

 fulvous, the third and following joints elongate, nearly equal ; 

 thorax about one half broader than long, the sides nearly straight, 

 very slightly widened towards the apex, the anterior angles 

 thickened, the posterior margin shghtly rounded, the surface very 

 finely rugose and punctured, fulvous, clothed with very short 

 yellowish pubescence ; scutellum small, black ; elytra of paler colour 

 than the thorax, wider than the latter, extremely finely transversely 

 wrinkled or rugose throughout, closely covered with short yellowish 

 hairs, the sutural and lateral margins narrowly black ; legs flavous, 

 the posterior femora piceous at the apex, tarsi fuscous. 



Hab. Malvern, Xatal (G. Marshall). 



This is the first species of the genus recorded from Africa, the 

 other three having been obtained in India and the Malayan region. 

 I cannot find, however, sufficient structural diiferences to separate 

 them from the genus, the principal characters of which are to be 

 found in the pubescent upper surface, the subquadrate thorax 

 without sulcus, the absent or indistinct elytral epipleurae below the 

 middle, the rather long metatarsus of the posterior legs, and in 

 the scarcely visible prosternum and closed coxal cavities. All this 

 would agree better \^-ith the group Galerucince, but the distinctly 

 incrassate posterior femora do not allow the placing of the insect 

 in the latter section. I received two specimens of the present 

 insect from Mr. G. Marshall. 



