1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 253 



spots, the last interstice near the margins broad, flavous, crossed 

 from the middle downwards with fulvous stripes. 



Hah. Africa. 



Whether this is the species described by Thuuberg as Podontia 

 stolida I am not certain, the description is not detailed enough to 

 be sure about it ; the terminal joints of tbe antennae are given as 

 black and the thorax as impunctate ; the position and number of 

 the elytral spots are not mentioned. The present species differs 

 from all its African congeners with which 1 am acquainted in 

 the regular or semiregular numbers of the flavous spots, which form 

 no bands or other pattern, but are distributed evenly and closely 

 on every interstice ; I possess three specimens, which show no 

 differences in that respect, but have no exact localities. 



DlBOLIA BIMACULATA, Sp. n. 



Bluish black, above metallic blue, the basal joints of the antennas 

 flavous ; thorax closely semirugose-punctate ; elytra finely and closely 

 punctate-striate, each elytron with a fulvous spot near the apex. 



Length 2| millim. 



Of convex, subcyliudrical shape ; the head with a few fine 

 punctures, metallic greenish ; clypeus triangularly raised ; eyes 

 elongate and large ; antennae scarcely extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, black, the lower five joints flavous, the basal joint 

 stained with piceous above, elongate, slender, the second as long as 

 the third joint, terminal joints gradually and moderately thickened; 

 thorax about twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, 

 obliquely narrowed towards the apex, the anterior angles very 

 slightly thickened, the surface irregularly wrinkled, rather finely 

 and closely punctured ; scutellum small, triangular, black ; elytra 

 very closely and finely punctate-striate, the rows rather irregular 

 here and there ; each elytron with a large, subquadrate, slightly 

 oblique fulvous patch near the apex ; femora metallic blue ; tibiae 

 and tarsi black, posterior tibiae strongly widened towards the apex, 

 the edges dentate, the apex with a robust, double-pointed fulvous 

 spur ; the metatarsus slender, as long as tbe following two joints 

 together. 



Hob. Malvern, Natal (G. Marshall). 



I received a single specimen of this pretty little species from 

 Mr. Marshall. 



DlBOLIA AFRICANA, Sp. 11. 



Dark metallic greenish, the antenna? black ; thorax strongly and 

 remotely punctured; elytra strongly and very closely punctured in 

 irregular rows. 



Length 3 millim. 



Head finely and remotely punctured, the eyes widely separated, 

 frontal elevations feebly raised ; clypeus convex, triangular ; antennae 

 extending to the base of the elytra, black, the lower three joints 

 more or less stained with fulvous, the second, third, and fourth 



