1897.] PHTTOPHAGOTtS COLEOPTEEA OF AFRICA. 54? 



strongly narrowed between the coxae ; the anterior margin of the 

 thoracic episternum concave. 



The small insect for which this genus is proposed agrees entirely 

 in shape, pubescence, and colour with the species described by 

 Lefevre under the generic name of Malerjia : it is, however, not 

 possible to leave the present species in that genus on account of 

 the non-em argiu ate tibiae. Lefevre, in his diagnosis of genera of 

 Eumolpidse, places MaJegla in the group Leprotince, which he de- 

 scribes as having sometimes emarginate, sometimes simple tibiae ; 

 this arrangement seems to me, however, unsatisfactory', since the 

 structure of the tibiae is a very important character amongst the 

 Eumolpidse. Whether all the species described by Lefevi'e have 

 the tibiae emarginate or not, it is impossible to say without seeing 

 the types, since the author does not mention the state of the tibiae in 

 his descriptions. In M. letournetuci, Lefev., of which I possess a 

 specimen, the tibiae are emarginate ; in AT. turl-estanica, Eeitter, of 

 which a typical specimen is before me, the tibiae are simple, and the 

 species will have to be placed in Pseudomalegia. Whether the Natal 

 species is really distinct from one or other of Lefevre's species is 

 somewhat doubtful, as his descriptions of four or five lines do 

 not allow me to be certain in that respect, but as not even the 

 generic characters agree, I must consider my species to be distinct. 



PSEUDOMAXEGIA LEFEVBEI, n. Sp. 



Below nearly black, above aeneous ; fovu* lower joints of the 

 antennae, the base of the femora, and the tibiae entirely fulvous ; 

 thorax minutely punctured ; elytra distinctly punctured in rows, 

 clothed with whitish pubescence. 



Length |-1 line. 



Head minutely rugose and pubescent, the epistome not separated 

 from the face ; antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, 

 black, the lower four joints fulvous, the terminal five joints thick- 

 ened, the third and following joints nearly equal ; thorax scarcely 

 broader than long, the sides rounded at the middle, ^A"ithout 

 distinct lateral margins, the surface very finely rugose, clothed 

 with whitish pubescence ; scutellum very small ; elytra much 

 wider at the base than the thorax, much more strongly punctured 

 than the latter, the punctation arranged in very closely approached 

 rows, the interstices between the punctures not \nder than the 

 latter themselves and clothed with rather long whitish pubescence ; 

 legs fulvous, the extreme apex of the femora and the tarsi black, 

 the first joint of the latter as long as the two following joints 

 together ; claws bifid. 



Hah. Xatal, Estcourt (&'. Marshall). 



COLASPOSOilA KEAATZI, n. Sp. 



iEneous, cupreous, blue or metallic green ; the antennae nearly 

 black ; thorax strongly and subremotely punctured ; elytra more 

 finely punctate, the punctures arranged in semi-regular rows, the 

 interstices slightly ^\-rinkled ; anterior femora subdentate. 



