1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEE.A OF APEICA. 245 



Head with a few fine punctures, testaceous or flavous ; the 

 vertex with a triangular black spot ; clypeus not separated from 

 the face ; labrum deeply emarginate ; apex of the mandibles black ; 

 palpi rather robust ; antennje inserted below the inner margin 

 of the eyes, not extending to the middle of the elytra, testaceous, 

 the second joint one-half shorter than the third, this latter 

 shorter than the fourth, the following joints elongate, the ter- 

 minal ones shorter again and slightly thickened ; thorax gradually 

 narroM'ed towards the base, about one-half broader than long, the 

 surface remotely but rather strongly punctured, with an obsolete 

 transverse depression near the base, the disc flavous or testaceous, 

 with a triangular black spot at the middle of the anterior margin 

 and another at the middle of the base, the flanks of the thorax like- 

 wise black ; elytra with rows of deep and regular punctures, all the 

 interstices longitudinally costate, the lateral margin not visible 

 from above, narrowly black, Hke the suture ; underside black ; legs 

 flavous or testaceous. 



Hah. Madagascar, Diego-Suarez (C, Allvxmd). 



MiopEiSTis (LoPHOBASis) NATALENSis, n. sp. (Plate XVII. 

 fig. 5.) 



Black, pubescent, lower portion of the face flavous ; thorax 

 flavous with two large black spots, coarsely punctured ; elytra 

 finely and closely punctured, flavous or testaceous, the margins 

 narrowly and a spot on the shoulders black, the base with a i-idge. 



Mas. The anterior legs very long, femora robust, tibite curved, 

 tarsi slender. 



Feni. Legs equal, entirely flavous ; the elytra more closely and 

 strongly punctured. 



Length 3-3| lines. 



S . Head black at the upper portion and closely pubescent, the 

 sides pi'olonged below the eyes, these small, feebly notched below ; 

 clypeus flavous, deeply triangularly emarginate at the anterior 

 margin; mandibles broad, flavous, strongly curved inwards at the 

 tip, the latter black ; palpi flavous, the apex black ; antennae 

 extending to about the base of the tiiorax, black, the lower three 

 joints fulvous, the basal joint black abo\e, the second and third 

 short, equal, the following joints very strongly triangularly den- 

 tate and widened ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides and 

 the posterior angles rounded, the surface sparingly and coarsely 

 punctured, flavous, shining, the disc more or less fulvous, with a 

 large black subquadrate spot at each side of variable size ; scutel- 

 lum black, pubescent at its base, its apex truncate ; elytra with a 

 narrow transverse ridge at the basal margin, closely punctured in 

 irregular rows, flavous, opaque, the sutural and lateral margins 

 very narrowly black, the shoulders with a small black spot; 

 underside and the legs black, the extreme base of the femora and 

 the tibiae more or less flavous ; the first joint of the anterior tarsi 

 in the male as long as the following two joints together. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt {Q. Marshall). 



