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testaceous, third joint very slightly longer than the second, tlie 

 following more elongate, terminal joint widened at the middle but 

 not longer than the preceding one ; thorax very short, more than 

 twice as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides straight, the 

 surface rather remotely but distinctly punctured ; scutellum pro- 

 portionally large ; elytra strongly convex towards the apex, strongly 

 punctured in regular and very closely approached rows, distinct to 

 the apex, the interstices slightly longitudinally convex, their epi- 

 pleurae entirely absent below the middle ; underside piceous ; legs 

 slender, testaceous, the first joint of the posterior tarsi very long. 



Hah. Kurazol, East Africa. 



This small species is not difficult to recognize on account of its 

 short thorax and the sculpturing of the elytra, which differs from 

 any species with which T am acquainted. 



MoNOLEPTA NPGROCINCTA, Sp. n. 



Flavous, antennae fuscous; thorax transverse, impunctate ; elytra 

 finely and closely punctured, very narrowly margined with black ; 

 lateral margins of the thorax obscure piceous. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, the frontal elevations transverse, the clypeus 

 broad ; labrum black ; antennas extending slightly beyond the middle 

 of the elytra, fuscous, the lower three joints flavous, second and 

 third joints short, equal, the rest elongate ; thorax twice as broad 

 as long, the sides feebly rounded, the angles distinct, posterior 

 margin moderately rounded, the surface convex, impunctate, flavous, 

 the lateral margins piceous ; scutellum fuscous ; elytra subcylin- 

 drical, very finely and closely punctured, the interstices somewhat 

 wrinkled, the extreme margins piceous or black ; elytral epipleurae 

 entirely indistinct below the shoulders, margined with black ; below 

 flavous as well as the legs ; the anterior tibiae unarmed, the posterior 

 tibiae with a long spine, their metatarsus very long. 



Hah. Sierra Leone. 



Similar in colour to Candezea dahlmanni Jac, but the elytral 

 epipleurae indistinct below the shoulders, the antennae and the 

 underside of different coloration, and the general size smaller ; C. 

 tenuicornis Jac. is likewise nearly similarly coloured, but varies also 

 in the same structural differences pointed out, the smaller size, more 

 slender antennae, pale labrum, and the absence of the thoracic black 

 lateral margins ; C. nigrosuturalis Jac. has the underside black. 



Monolepta exclamationis, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 9.) 



Fulvous, the head and the intermediate joints of the antennae 

 black ; thorax subquadrate, closely punctured ; elytra widened 

 posteriorly, punctured like the thorax, the lateral margins ante- 

 riorly, an interrupted longitudinal stripe (widened and abbre- 

 viated posteriorly), and a small spot at the apex black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head black, opaque, the frontal elevations broad, trigonate, 

 bounded by a transverse groove behind, clypeus with an oblique 



