1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 217 



This species seems more nearly allied in coloration to C. erythro- 

 melas Suffr. than to any other, but differs in the anterior sutural 

 spot and posterior band, which both extend across the suture ; the 

 legs also are flavous and not black ; the presternum agrees very 

 nearly with that of C. v-nigrum. Two exactly similar specimens 

 were sent by Mr. Marshall. 



Crvptocephalus flavo-ornatus, sp. n. 



Flavous, the apical joints of the antennae black, above fulvous ; 

 the thorax im punctate, the lateral margins and a central longi- 

 tudinal stripe flavous ; elytra rather closely punctate-striate, the 

 interstices minutely puuctured. 



Length 4-4^ millim. 



Of parallel, subcylindrical shape, the head with a distinct central 

 longitudinal sulcus, sparingly punctured, fulvous, the space near 

 the eyes flavous ; the latter reniform, broadly emarginate at the 

 middle ; antenna? comparatively short and robust, black, the lower 

 five joints flavous, second and third joints short, equal, terminal 

 joints robust and strongly widened ; thorax twice as broad as long, 

 very convex, the sides nearly straight, the surface entirely im- 

 •punctate, with a distinct oblique depression at the base on each 

 side in front of the scutellum ; the disc fulvous, interrupted by a 

 narrow central flavous stripe from the base to the apex, the sides 

 likewise narrowly, and the posterior angles more broadly flavous, 

 extreme basal margin black ; scutellum flavous, its apex truncate ; 

 elytra parallel, closely and rather strongly punctate-striate, the 

 punctures somewhat closely placed and smaller towards the apex, 

 the interstices finely punctured ; the epipleurae at the base, the 

 underside, and the legs flavous ; the pvgidium rugosely punctured. 



Bab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (<?. Marshall). 



This species was obtained, according to Mr. Marshall, on Mosasa ; 

 it will not be difficult to recognize it on account of its uniform 

 coloration of the elytra and the flavous markings of the thorax. I 

 am not acquainted with any other African representative of the 

 genus with which it may be compared in this respect ; in some 

 specimens the extreme sutural and lateral margins are stained with 

 flavous. 



CrYPTOCEPHALUS V-NIGRUM, sp. n. 



Black ; the basal joints of the antenna?, the tibia? more or less, 

 and the thorax at the sides and middle, flavous ; thorax extremely 

 finely punctured ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, flavous, a spot 

 on the shoulder, another near the scutellum, and two subquadrate, 

 connected spots in shape of an inverted V below the middle, 

 black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head entirely black, strongly punctured and sparingly pubescent, 

 slightly depressed bet ween the eyes; the antenna? scarcely extending 

 to the middle of the elytra, filiform in the male, shorter and the 

 terminal joints thicker in the female insect, the lower five joints 



