1899.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEEA OP APEICA. 379 



margins narrowly black ; their epipleurae likewise edged with black 

 and the breast entirely of that colour. 



Hah. Kurazor, Africa. 



Of this species I possess three specimens, of which t^^o are 

 simpty labelled "Africa" and the other has the above-given locality, 

 which is unknown to rue. I believe I received it from Mr. Bang- 

 Haas. The specimens vary much in size, but the black elytral 

 margins are strongly marked as well as the colour of the breast ; the 

 elytral epipleuras are continued below the middle. Another very 

 closely allied species contained in my collection is the following. 



Candezea tenuicoenis, sp. n. 



Pale testaceous, the apical joints of the antennae fuscous ; thorax 

 opaque, impunctate ; elytra very finely and closely punctured, 

 testaceous, narrowly margined with black ; underside unicolorous. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, testaceous, the frontal elevations narrowly 

 transverse, the clypeus with a distinct central ridge ; antennae long 

 and slender, the third joint twice as long as the second, but nearly 

 one-half shorter than the fourth, the lower six joints flavous, the 

 rest fuscous ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the sides 

 straight, strongly obliquely narrowed in front, the anterior angles 

 obliquely thickened, the surface impunctate, opaque, or with a few 

 vei-y minute punctures, the disc with a very obsolete transverse 

 depression at the middle ; scutellum flavous ; elytra very finely and 

 closely punctured, narrowly margined with black, the epipleurae 

 entirely of that colour ; abdomen and the legs testaceous, the 

 breast pale fulvous ; all the tibiae mucronate ; metatarsus of the 

 posterior legs elongate. 



Hob. Sierra Leone. 



In its coloration the present insect almost entirely resembles 

 the preceding one, but the antennae are much more slender and 

 elongate, the third joint is much longer, and the breast is not 

 black ; the general size of the insect is also rather smaller and 

 narrower. 



Cajsdezea pectoeaI/Is, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 10.) 



Black; the head, thorax, and abdomen flavous, impunctate ; elytra 

 very finely and closely punctured, reddish fulvous, the base with a 

 transverse black band, widened at the suture. 



Length 5 milHm. 



Head flavous, the vertex with a few extremely minute punctures, 

 the frontal elevations trigonate, clypeus thickened, carina acutely 

 raised; labrum black, as well as the palpi ; antennas long and slender, 

 black, the ninth and tenth joints, as well as the apex of the eighth 

 and the base of the terminal joint, flavous, basal joint long and 

 slender, the second half the length of the third, the latter shorter 

 than the fourth joint, the following very elongate and thin ; thorax 

 nearly twice as broad as long, the sides constricted at the base, 

 rather rounded at the middle, posterior angles oblique, the basal 



