1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEEA OF AffilCA. 569 



punctured ; thorax nearly impunctate ; elytra testaceous, closely 

 and finely punctured. 



Length 1^ line. 



Head fulvous, finely punctured at the vertex, transversely 

 grooved between the eyes, the frontal tubercles narrowly trans- 

 verse ; clypeus broad, distinctly raised between the antennae, the 

 latter extending nearly to the end of the elytra, fuscous, the lower 

 three joints flavous, the third joint scarcely longer than the second, 

 fourth and following joints elongate, slender ; thorax twice as 

 broad as long, the sides distinctly narrowed at the base, rounded 

 before the middle, aaterior angles thickened, posterior ones rather 

 oblique, surface extremely finely punctured, testaceous or flavous ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra very finely and closely punctured, fiavous ; 

 legs darker ; tibiae mucronate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi 

 longer than the following joints together ; breast and abdomen 

 black, the last segment of the latter more or less flavous. 



At once distinguished by the black scutellum and underside. 



MaLACOSOMA I)0]!fKIEBI, n. sp. 



Below black, above obscure testaceous, as well as the antennae 

 and the legs ; head impunctate ; thorax and elytra closely and 

 strongly punctured. 



Length 1^ line. 



Head impunctate at the vertex, the latter with a slight aeneous 

 gloss, frontal tubercles strongly transverse, lower portion of face 

 testaceous ; clypeus in shape of a triangular strongly raised ridge ; 

 antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, pale fulvous, 

 the basal joint elongate, the second scarcely shorter than the 

 third joint, the following joints about as long as the third, each 

 widened towards the apex ; thorax about one-half broader than 

 long, the sides rounded at the middle, the angles not prominent, 

 the surface rather depressed at the sides, strongly and closely 

 punctured throughout, obscure testaceous, stained with some 

 piceous markings ; elytra of the same colour, the suture rather 

 darker, the surface punctured like the thorax : underside nearly 

 black ; legs testaceous, the tibiae with a very small spine ; pro- 

 sternum narrowly convex ; the anterior coxal cavities open. 



This small species might be compared to M. basimarginata, Jac, 

 from Zanzibar, which it resembles somewhat in colour, bnt differs 

 entirely from that species and most of its allies by the strong 

 punctuation of the thorax and the elytra. 



Malacosoma capitatum, n. sp. 



Head and the underside piceous ; antennae black, the basal 

 joints flavous ; thorax subquadrate, testaceous, impunctate ; elytra 

 extremely finely and rather closely punctured, testaceous, shining. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head impunctate, piceous, the frontal elevations transverse, 

 rather strongly raised ; the clypeus very broad at its upper portion, 

 its anterior margin straight ; labrum pale ; the antennae rather 



