210 MB. M. JACOB!" ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPXEItA [Mar. t), 



tarsi obscure fulvous ; anterior tibiae mucronate at the apex, the 

 first joint of their tarsi very elongate, as long as the following 

 two joints together ( 6* )• 



Bab. Delagoa .Bay, received from Mr. G. Marshall. 



C. abyssinica Lefev. (Eev. de Zoolog. 1877, p. i ; 23) seems to be 

 very closely allied, and indeed there appear to be several African 

 species to which Lefevre's description partially but not entirely 

 applies. Specimens received some time ago from Mr. Marshall, who 

 obtained them in Mashonaland (Salisbury), agree almost entirely 

 with Lefevre's description of his C. abyssinica, but the male in my 

 possession has not the strongly developed mandibles of which the 

 author speaks. On the other hand, the present species agrees in 

 this respect, but the thorax is much shorter and decidedly not 

 rugose and confluently punctate, so that I cannot identify the 

 species w ith that of Letevre. The apical elytral spot is only present 

 in the female of G. pvbifrom, and scarcely indicated in the other 

 sex. 



Peploptera apicata, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 3.) 



Black, the basal joints of the antenna? and the tibia? and tarsi 

 fulvous; thorax sparingly punctured, the anterior and lateral 

 margins, as well as a central short stripe, flavous ; elytra finely 

 punctured, flavous, an angular narrow band near the base, inter- 

 rupted at the suture, and a broad transverse band near the apex 

 black, the latter part more or less fulvous. 



Length 10 inillim. 



Of broad and robust shape ; the head black, finely rugose and 

 closely pubescent, the vertex swollen ; eyes large, oblong, slightly 

 emarginate at their lower portion ; palpi fulvous ; antennae not 

 extending to the base of the thorax, black, the basal five joints 

 fulvous, second and third joints very short, the apical joints strongly 

 transverse ; thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, 

 the sides straight and oblique, the median lobe distinct, broad and 

 truncate, the surface finely and sparingly punctured near the base, 

 more strongly so at the sides, the base with a transverse, strongly 

 punctured depression at the middle ; the disc black, very shining, 

 a short central stripe dividing the black portion anteriorly, and the 

 anterior and lateral margins very narrowly, pale flavous ; scutellum 

 black, its apex truncate ; elytra finely punctured in irregular rows, 

 which are nearly indistinct near the apex, flavous, a strongly 

 angular band (which consists of two joined spots, of which one is 

 placed on the shoulders, the other within the latter), near the 

 suture but not extending to it, black ; another very broad black 

 band is placed below the middle across the elytra, including at 

 the apex a transversely shaped fulvous or flavous spot ; below 

 densely clothed with silvery pubescence; the tibia? and tarsi fulvous, 

 the latter very broad in the male insect ; last abdominal segment 

 in the same sex emarginate at the middle, in the female provided 

 with a deep oval fovea. 



Hab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. Marshall). 



