246 MR. M. JACOBY OJf TSB [1*6^. 2, 



This and the following species seem to me to find their places best 

 in Lacordaire's subgenus Lophohasis, on account ol: the basal ridge o£ 

 the elytra, although some of the other structural characters do not 

 agree with the genus, but in that respect scarcely two species are 

 similar amongst these variable insects. Of both sexes a good Djauy 

 specimens are before me : in some the elytra are without the dark 

 margins and the thoracic spots are much smaller; the females differ 

 much in the more strongly and closely punctured elytra, which are 

 also more shining, and in having entirely flavous legs. 



MioPEiSTis SUEBUGOSA, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 7.) 



Black, pubescent ; the clypeus and the legs fulvous ; thorax 

 remotely and strongly punctured, flavous with two large black spots ; 

 elytra very closely and strongly punctured, testaceous, a spot on 

 the shoulder and three others placed triangularly near the apex, 

 black. 



Var. Some or all the elytral spots absent. 



Mas, The anterior legs elongate, the tibiae strongly curved. 



Fern. Legs normal, thorax and elytra nearly rugosely punctured. 



Length 2|-3 lines. 



Head pubescent and of the same sculpture and colour as in the 

 preceding species ; the antennae also exactly similar, as well as the 

 thorax ; elyti-a with the basal margin likewise in shape of a ridge, 

 very closely and strongly punctured, with an elongate spot on the 

 shoulders and three round spots near the apex black — of these 

 latter, one is placed close to the suture aud two near the lateral 

 margin, forming together a triangle ; legs fulvous, the femora 

 above and the tarsi black. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (6r. Marshall). 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but quite distinct on 

 account of the almost rugose punctuation of the elytra and their 

 pattern ; and even if the spots of the elytra are absent, both sexes 

 may be at once known from M. natalensis by their sculpture, w hich 

 renders the elytra opaque, the female of the last-named species, on 

 the contrary, having the elytra distinctly shining ; the spots of the 

 thorax areas variable as usual in these insects. 



MioPRiSTis ATROPASCiATA , n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 6.) 



Fulvous, the upper part of the head, the tibiae, tarsi, and sides 

 of the breast black ; thorax nearly im punctate ; elytra with fine 

 rows of punctures, fulvous, a triangular band at the base, and a 

 transverse spot below the middle, black. 



Mas. The anterior legs elongate ; the first joint of the tarsi as 

 long as the two following joints together. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head strongly covered with transverse and longitudinal strigae, 

 the vertex smoother, black, in shape of a transverse band with 

 its anterior edge concave, lower portion of face fulvous, the ante- 

 rior margin of the clypeus deeply triangularly emarginate, eyes 

 moderate, distinctly notched, sides of the face produced into a 



