240 MB. M. JACOBT ON THE [Feb. 2, 



punctured ; elytra greenish black, strongly punctate-striate ; last 

 abdominal segment and the legs more or less flavous. 



Length Ig line. 



Head dark fulvous, the vertex very convex, not constricted 

 behind the eyes, minutely punctured, the sides and the middle 

 deeply longitudinally sulcate ; eyes large, very slightly notched ; 

 antennae extending to the base ot the thorax only, the lower five 

 and the apical joint fulvous, the others black, basal joints very 

 short, nearly moniliform, the following five joints transverse, broader 

 than long : thorax scarcely longer than broad, the sides but very 

 little constricted at the base, the surface without a sulcus, very 

 minutely punctured and finely granulose, of a dark fulvous colour, 

 with a slight seneous gloss ; scutellum broader than long ; elytra 

 with a'slight depression below the base, closely aud strongly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures rather elongate, the interstices flat, except 

 near the extreme apex, impunctate ; legs flavous, the femora marked 

 with piceous at the middle ; breast aud abdomen greenish black, 

 the last abdominal segment flavous. 



Hah. Tsipango, Natal {G. Marshall); also Mashonaland. 



This is a very interesting little Lema, and unlike any other with 

 which I am acquainted, on account of the very short antennse and 

 their transversely-shaped joints and the scarcely constricted thorax. 

 I have seen six specimens of this species. 



Lema fuscitaesis, n. sp. 



Testaceous ; the apical joints of the antennje and the tarsi more 

 or less fuscous ; head and thorax impunctate ; elytra very deeply 

 punctate-striate, the interstices at the apex convex. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head scarcely constricted behind the eyes, impuuctate, the space 

 between the eyes strongly swollen, with a deep central fovea, the 

 supraocular grooves moderately deep, with some yellow pubescence ; 

 eyes not very deeply notched ; antennae scarcely extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, the basal joint short and thick, the second 

 very short, the third and fourth equal, twice as long as the second 

 one, the apex of each joint slightly stained with fuscous, the 

 terminal joints entirely of that colour; thorax not longer than 

 broad, the sides moderately constricted, the basal sulcus not very 

 deep, the disc entirely impunctate, shining; scutellum vith the 

 apical margin emarginate ; elytra scarcely perceptibly depressed 

 below the base, deeply foveolate-punctate at the base, less sti-ongly 

 punctured posteriorly, the interstices not raised, except at the sides 

 and apex ; underside entirely testaceous, clothed with fine yellow 

 pubescence ; the legs of the same colour, the apex of each tarsal 

 joint and the claws fuscous. 



Hab. Tsipango (Natal) ; collected by Mr. G. Marshall. 



Allied to L. injima, Lac, from Senegal, but differing in the 



colour of the antennae and tarsi, in the impunctate head and thorax, 



and the deep elytral punctuation at the base ; the punctures at the 



lower portion are rather elongate in shape and as large as the space 



