1898.] PHTTOPHAGOXJS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 219 



intensely black. This species is very closely allied to, i£ not identical 

 with, G. incerta Lefev., from Abyssinia, but that author gives the 

 length as 4|-5 mm., and describes the thorax as having an ill-defined 

 central black mark, of which there is no trace in my specimens ; 

 the elytral lateral stripe also is described as being placed below the 

 middle. The punctuation of the thorax in the present insect is 

 exceptionally strong and remote. 



GXNANDROPHTHALMA BABIOIDES, Sp. UOV. 



Elongate, black, the thorax punctured near the base only ; elytra 

 finely punctured in irregular rows, black, the anterior half and a 

 spot at the apex flavous. 



Var. Elytra with the basal margin only as well as the apical 

 spot fulvous. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head rather strongly punctured between the eyes, black, shining, 

 the middle with three small foveas, placed triangularly, the epistome 

 semicircularly emarginate at its anterior edge, labrum and palpi 

 black ; antennte with the second and the following two joints 

 fulvous, the others black ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides 

 nearly straight, slightly narrowed in front, the basal lobe scarcely 

 produced, straight, the surface rather convex, irregularly and 

 sparingly punctured, nearly impunctate anteriorly, more distinctly 

 and closely punctured near the base, black, shining ; scutellum 

 rather broad, black ; elytra elongate, subcylindrical and parallel, 

 finely punctured in irregular rows, the anterior half and a spot at 

 the apex flavous, the rest black ; underside and legs black, the 

 knees more or less fulvous : tarsi broad, the first joint scarcely 

 longer than the second. 



Hah. (Salisbury, Mashonaland {G. Marshall). 



A species evidently allied to G. venustula Lac, but larger, more 

 elongate, the head not rugose but shining and punctured at the 

 middle only, the thorax distinctly punctured near the base, and 

 the elytral markings of different shape ; in the variety the elytra 

 are nearly black, leaving only the basal and part of the lateral 

 margin as well as the apical spot fulvous. Like G. venustula, the 

 present species resembles somewhat a species of the genus Babia. 



Gtnandkophthalma nitidicollis, sp. nov. (Plate XXII. fig. 9.) 



Black, pubescent, head and thorax bright metallic green, the 

 latter impunctate : elytra pale fulvous, finel}' punctured in irre- 

 gular rows, the suture narrowly and a broader lateral stripe, not 

 extending to the apex, dark greenish. 



Length 3-4 millim. 



Head sparingly punctured and pubescent, metallic green, labrum 

 obscure fulvous ; antenna-- with strongly serrate joints, fuscous, the 

 lower three joints and the outer margin of the following three or 

 four joints flavous, third joint very small ; thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long, the sides rounded towards the base, the basal margin 

 scarcely produced at the middle, the disc with a semicircular groove 



