1897.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEBA or AFRICA. 573 



CaJTDEZEA IflGEITABSIS, n. Sp. 



Fulvous, the antenna (the basal joints excepted) and the tarsi 

 black ; thorax sparingly, elytra very closely and finely punctured. 



Length 1| line. 



Head inipuuctate, fulvous, frontal tubercles transverse, eyes 

 very large ; antennae robust and long, extending nearly to the end 

 of the ehi;ra, black, the lower three joints fulvous, second and 

 third joints small, the latter slightly longer and trigonate in shape, 

 the other joints elongate and pubescent; thorax at least twice as 

 broad as long, the sides slightly rounded, the anterior angles 

 oblique, the disc very finely and rather sparingly punctured, 

 fulvous, shining ; elytra of the same colour, very closely and 

 finely punctured, their epipleurse continued below the middle : the 

 underside and the legs fulvous ; tarsi black, the metatarsus of the 

 posterior legs very long, all the tibiae mucronate ; the anterior 

 cavities closed. 



Hah. Mashonaland {G. Marshall). British Museum and my 

 own collection. 



From C. varipennis and some nearly similarly coloured species 

 the present one may be at once distinguished by the black antennae 

 and tarsi in connection with the fulvous underside and legs. 



Catstdezea nigeoc^eulea, n. sp. 



Black, the head, the basal joints of the antennae, the thorax 

 and legs fulvous ; elytra dark metallic blue, finely and closely 

 punctured. 



Length 1| Une. 



Head with a few extremely minute punctures, fulvous, the 

 frontal tubercles and the carina obsolete, labrum testaceous ; 

 antennae extending to half the length of the elytra, black, the lower 

 four joints fulvous, basal joint long and slender, second and third 

 joints short, nearly equal, the following more elongate ; thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight and obliquely 

 narrowed towards the front, the posterior margin rounded, the 

 disc impunctate, fulvous ; scutellum black ; elytra strongly convex 

 and subcylindrical, the apex of each rounded, the surface closely 

 and finely punctured, dark metallic blue, below black : legs fulvous, 

 all the tibiae mucronate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi very 

 long. 



Hah. Mashonaland (G. Marshall), Collections British Museum 

 and my owti. 



Candezea duvitieei, n. sp. 



Pale fulvous, the breast pieeous ; thorax and elytra minutely 

 punctured, the latter with ten or twelve large black spots, placed 

 obliquely at the lower portion. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head very finely and closely punctured, the frontal tubercles 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. XXXVIII. 88 



