1897.] PHYTOPHAGOm COLEOPTBRA OF APBICA. 549 



C. melancJiolicum, Jac, and several others all having the upper 

 surface pubescent, but the present species differs from all in the 

 strong and rather remote punctuation of the thorax and the deep 

 lateral elytral depression. 



COLASPOSOMA TEANSVALENSE, U, sp. 



Metallic green, antennae (the basal three joints excepted) bluish 

 black ; thorax very finely and closely punctured ; elytra more 

 strongly and very closely punctate, the interstices finely transversely 

 wrinkled ; legs dark fulvous ; tarsi piceous. 



Length 2-2| lines. 



Of the same general colour and shape as C. seiie</alense, Cast., of 

 which it may possibly be a local aberration ; the head minutely 

 granulate, closely and finely punctured ; the clypeus not separated 

 from the face ; labrum metallic green ; jjasal joints of palpi fulvous, 

 the apical one black ; antennae extending beyond the middle of the 

 elytra, the lower three joints fulvous, the others bluish black, 

 metallic, aU the terminal joints long and slender ; thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long, the sides strongly rounded, the surface 

 minutely granulate, very closely and finely punctured with some 

 still finer punctation intermixed, the centre of the disc with a 

 narrow smooth space near the base ; scutellum broader than long, 

 with some punctures ; elytra very closely and rather more strongly 

 punctui-ed than the thorax, the interstices minutely granulate, 

 punctured and transversely wrinkled at the sides, the base not 

 depressed and the shoulders scarcely prominent ; breast metallic 

 gi-een ; abdomen dark obscure cupreous ; legs dark fulvous ; tarsi 

 nearly black. 



Hah. Transvaal. 



Although, as remarked, this species almost entirely resembles 

 G, senegalense, which is frequent in collections and with which it 

 is probably often confounded, the differences are to be found in 

 the metallic green, not fulvous labrum, the dai'k blue antennae, 

 and the entirely fulvous legs ; the punctuation of the thorax is 

 also still closer and finer. I possess three specimens, apparently 

 all males, which agree entirely in these details. 



EuRTOPE BiPABTiTA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1.) 



Black ; head and thorax fulvous, minutely punctured ; elytra 

 with basal depression, finely punctured, black, the posterior third 

 portion fulvous. 



Length 4| Lines. 



Broad and robust ; the head deeply depressed in front of the 

 clypeus, the latter narrowly edged with black ; mandibles strongly 

 punctured, fulvous, the apex black ; antennae extending beyond the 

 base of the thorax, black, the lower two joints fulvous, terminal 

 joints widened ; thorax more than three times as broad as long, 

 the sides widened towards the apex, narrowly margined, the ante- 

 rior angles strongly produced outwards, the surface minutely and 

 closely punctured, with a round fovea at each side, fulvous; 



