S80 ON THE PHTTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEUA OF AFEICA. [Mar. 7, 



margin not produced but slightly sinuate at the middle, the disc 

 rather convex, flavous, impunctate and shining or with a few ex- 

 tremely minute punctures ; scutellum black ; elytra wider at the base 

 than the thorax, convex, very finely and closely punctured, reddish 

 fulvous, the base with a narrow transverse black band, v.hich is 

 widened at the suture and extends to the lateral margins ; the 

 breast and legs black ; the abdomen flavous, the last segment of 

 the male with a deeply sulcate median lobe, incised at each side. 



Hah. Salisbury, Mashonaland {G. Marshall). 



Distinct in its mode of coloration from any of its allies. 



Candezea nigeotibialis, sp. n. 



Flavous, the antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the tibiae 

 and tarsi black ; thorax obsoletely sulcate, finely punctured ; elytra 

 more strongly and very closely punctured. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, the eyes large, the frontal tubercles broad, as 

 \^ell as the clypeus ; antennae long and slender, black, the lower 

 three joints flavous, the second and third joints short, equal in the 

 male, the thu-d joint slightly longer in the female, the other joints 

 very slender and elongate ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, 

 of usual shape, the sides straight at the base, slightly rounded at 

 the middle, the anterior angles slightly thickened, the surface 

 obsoleiely transversely sulcate, very minutely punctured; elytra 

 wider at the base than the thorax, distinctly widened towards the 

 middle and convex, extremely closely and more strongly punctured 

 than tlie thorax, the interstices slightly wrinkled ; below a2id the 

 femora flavous, the breast rather darker ; tibiae and tarsi black, the 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs very elongate, all the tibiae mucro- 

 nate ; elytral epipleurae distinctly continued below the middle. 



Hah. Malvern, Katal {G. Marshall). 



Closel}'^ allied to C. femorata Jac. and C. mashonana Jac, but 

 differing from the first in the colour of the antennae, the differently 

 sculptured thorax, and in the flavous not black scutellum : C. masho- 

 nana is a larger insect, the thorax is without a sulcus, and the elytra 

 are more finely punctured ; C. Jlaveola Gerst. has entirely flavous 

 legs. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXI. 



Fig. 1. (Edionychis ruc/icollis, p. 342. 



2. Malvernia varicornis, p. 347. 



3. Malacosoma apiciiicnne, p. 362. 



4. Idacantka weisei, p. 358. 



5. Asbeccsia marginata, p. 359. 



6. Homixantha tcrminafa, p. 369. 



7. ,, bifasciata, p. 369. 



8. „ natalensis, p. 367. 



9. Macrima africana, p. 377. 



10. Candezea 'pp.ctoralis, p. 379. 



11. Monolepta esicouriiana, p. 372. 



12. „ nigro-ornata, p. 375. 



