492 ON COLKOPTERA FROM CENTRAL AFKICA. [Juiie 17, 



general colour, i. e. tawny brown with the black and white marks 

 less clear, to Eastern Equatorial Africa, at Zanzibar and Mombasa. 



NiPHONA soRDiDA, Flhrseus, Ofvers. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1872, p. 35 

 (Ilecyi-ida). 



Many examples, not differing except in the elongate black spot in 

 the middle of the sides of the elytra being black only on its inner 

 border, thus forming a curved line. FShrffius places the species in 

 the genus Hecyrida, but if our species is the same, the bidentate and 

 fasciculate apices of the eh'tra and the subparallel claws show it to 

 be a Niphona. Von Harold says that the H. (qjpendlcnlafa of 

 Gerstacker is the same species, but does not mention the position of 

 the claws. It has a wide range. I have seen examples from 

 Graharustown and Caffraria and Camcroons. Gerstacker records it 

 from Eastern Africa, at Lake Jipe. 



If TTPSERHA HOMETERI, Harold. 



One example. Yon Harold records it from Pungo Andongo on 

 the river Quanza. 



Glen'ea pasciata, Pabr. 



Eound also at Cameroons and Cape Coast, Castle. Volumnia 

 calabarica, Thorns., is the same or a nearly allied species. 



GiENEA OHETROLATii, Murray. 



This species is also widely distributed along the "West Coast. I 

 have seen examples from Old Calabar, Camcroons, and the Batanga 

 coast, and from Angola. 



VOLTJMNIA WESTERMANXI, ThomsOU. 



A single example, agreeing with the typical form from Natal. 

 The species occurs also in East Africa, from Bagamoyo to the 

 interior. 



VOLTJMNIA XEtrCOMEL^NA, U. Sp. 



V. morosae {Pascoe) proxime offinis. Supra nigra, elytris utrinque 

 linea ohliqua a medio bast usque ad sutitram, suturu deinde ad 

 apicem, fascia curvata angusta niediana alteraque angustiore un- 

 dulata prope apicem, albis, fronte grism ; thorace vitta laterali 

 et linea, pleinimque obsoleta, dorsali albis; scuteUo antennisque 

 nigris; corpore subtus nigro-grisescente, vitta laterali a cajnte 

 usque ad anum eoctensa, altera oblique pectorali ventreque vittis 

 medianis duabus sordide albis ; supra sat grosse punctata. An- 

 tenncB articulis prima et tertio quam in V. westermanni lotigi- 

 oribus, tertio quam quarto fere duplo longiore, apice hand 

 nodosa ; elytra prope apicem mugis angustata, breviter truncata. 



Long. 15-18 millim. 



Several examples. Distinguished at once by the deep black 

 colour of its upper surface, even in the apical area of the elytra, 

 which is ochrcous and light brown in V. morosa. 



