1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COIEOPTERA OF APRICA. 535 



■with the usual seta, the disc rather deflexed anteriorly, very 

 sparingly and finely punctured, but variable iu that respect, some- 

 times with a small round fovea at each side ; elytra wider at the 

 base than the thorax, impressed with ten rows of very deep, large 

 and round punctures, the interstices smooth and impunctate ; the 

 underside and the femora nearly black ; tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less fulvous, the four posterior ones emarginate at the apex ; 

 the claws bifid ; the femora with a very small tooth ; prosternum 

 broad, rugosely punctured. 



]:Iah. Mashonaland (6-'. Marshall). 



In this species the thorax is of slightly different shape from 

 the typical form, having the anterior portion rather more deflexed, 

 which gives the thorax a somewhat different appearance ; the 

 femora also have a minute tooth. But although Lefevre has 

 described the type as having unarmed femora, his L.strigaticeps, of 

 which I possess a specimen named by the author, has likewise a 

 small tooth on all the femora : altogether the presence or absence of 

 tins tooth cannot be considered of sufficient generic value, since 

 nearly every species varies frequently in this respect, even if 

 undoubtedly belonging to the same genus of Eulmopidce. The 

 present species may be known by the nearly impunctate thorax. 



EUKYDEMUS iENEUS, U. Sp. 



Below and the legs more or less piceous, above greenish seneous, 

 the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi dark fulvous ; thorax sparingly 

 punctured ; elytra depressed below the base, strongly punctate- 

 striate anteriorly, finely so posteriorly. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head with a few punctures at the vertex ; the eyes large, 

 surrounded by a narrow, shallow sulcus, the intermediate space 

 narrower than their diameter; clypeus separated by shallow oblique 

 grooves from the face, sparingly but distinctly punctured, labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra, 

 fulvous, the basal joint thickened, the second shorter, but as long 

 as the third joint, following joints more elongate, the terminal 

 ones slightly thickened ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the 

 sides straight at the base, slightly rounded in front, anterior and 

 posterior angles distinct, surface irregularly and remotely punc- 

 tured, the punctures larger at the sides than at the middle, the 

 base with a nari'ow margin ; scutelluin oblong ; elytra much 

 broader at the base than the thorax, the shoulders prominent, the 

 basal portion rather deeply transversely depressed, the surface 

 rather deeply punctate-striate at the sides and within the depression, 

 the other punctiu-es much smaller and nearly indistinct near the 

 apex : underside and legs piceous, stained with dark fulvous ; the 

 femora more aeneous, the posterior ones with a very small tooth ; 

 prosternum broad, strongly punctured round the margins ; claws 

 bifid, the inner divisions very small. 



