236 Mb. m. jacoby on phttophagoub coleopteba [Mar. 6, 



strongly convex, finely punctate-striate, dark metallic blue ; femora 

 minutely toothed. 



Length o millim. 



Of robust and strougly convex shape, the head broad, impunc- 

 tate ; the epistoine separated from the face, transverse ; labrum 

 and palpi fulvous, the eyes surrounded by a narrow sulcus, large, 

 distinctly emarginate : antenna slender, black, the lower six joints 

 fulvous, second joint thickened, as long as the third joint ; thorax 

 twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the angles acute, 

 the posterior margin produced and rounded at the middle, the 

 surface closely and rather strongly punctured ; scutellum fulvous : 

 elytra subcylindrical, not depressed below the base, dark metallic- 

 blue, finely punctate-striate, each elytron with ten rows of punc- 

 tures, the first sutural one short, the interstices flat, here and 

 there with a few minute punctures ; below and the legs black, 

 shining, the femora with a very small tooth ; the presternum 

 broad, longitudinally sulcate at the sides. 



Hob. Salisbury, Mashonalaud, on mimosa {G. Marshall). 



Larger than B. eyanipennis Grerst. and R. recticoUis Jac. ; the 

 thorax more Btrongly punctured and the underside and lei»s deep 

 black. 



Rhejibastus ojiformis, sp. n. 



Entirely pale fulvous, the apical two joiuts of the antennae 

 fuscous ; thorax finely and remotely punctured : elytra very finely 

 puuctate- striate ; femora unarmed. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head with a few fine punctures and a longitudinal groove at 

 the middle ; clypeus separated from the face by a transverse groove, 

 more closely punctured than the head, of transversely subquadrate 

 shape, its anterior margin emarginate ; antennas extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, flavous, the apical two joints fuscous, the second 

 and the following four joints of equal length, the others slightly 

 thickened ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the 

 posterior margin produced at the middle, oblique at the sides, the 

 anterior margin straight, the disc sparingly covered with fine 

 punctures ; scutellum oblong; elytra very convex, finely punctate- 

 striate, the punctures rather irregularly placed, nearly absent at 

 the apex, the suture raised at the posterior portion, preceded by 

 an impressed hue ; below and the legs pale fulvous. 



Bab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, on mosasa (G. Marshall). 



Much larger than R.Jlavidus Lefuv., of uuiform coloration, the 

 thorax much more finely and sparingly punctured, and the femora 

 unarmed. 



Ehembastus interstitialis, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the apical joints of the antenna? black ; thorax trans- 

 verse, distinctly and subremotely punctured : elytra strongly 

 punctate-striate, the interstices extremely minutely punctured. 



