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represent a longitudinal central stripe, narrowed at the base, and a 

 lateral small round black spot. 



Candezea centrohaculata, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 10.) 



Fulvous, antennae and legs flavous ; thorax minutely punctured, 

 flavous, with a central black band ; elytra extremely closely and 

 finely punctured, flavous, with a broad transverse band at the base 

 . and another below the middle black. 



Length 5 millim. 



0£ rather broad and robust shape, the head reddish fulvous, 

 impunctate, the frontal elevations broad, trigonate, anterior margin 

 of the clypeus straight ; antennae extending to the apex of the 

 elytra, flavous, the last joint fuscous, the third joint but slightly 

 longer than the second, the fourth as long as the basal joint ; 

 thorax one-half broader than long, the sides and the auterior 

 margin straight, the basal one strongly rounded, the surface very 

 minutely and closely punctured, the middle of the disc with 

 a shallow trausverse groove, flavous, with a central longitudinal 

 black band, slightly widened anteriorly and extending from the 

 base to the apex ; scutellum black ; elytra widened towards the 

 middle, punctured like the thorax, flavous, with a transverse black 

 band at the base, which gradually widens at the sides, to which it 

 extends for about one-fourth of the length of the elytra, another 

 band of more regular shape is placed below the middle, elytral 

 epipleurae extending below the middle ; the breast and abdomen 

 fulvous ; the legs flavous ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi longer 

 than the following joints together. 



Hah. Malvern, Xatal (Barker). 



Distinguished from all other African species placed in this genus 

 and in Monolepta by the band of the thorax and the width of the 

 elytral black bands. 



Candezea sulcicollis, sp. n. 



Entirely flavous, the terminal joints of the antennas black only ; 

 thorax transverse, finely punctured, the disc obsoletely sulcate ; 

 elytra punctured like the thorax. 



Length 5| millim. 



Head impunctate, the frontal elevations broad and flat, divided 

 by the rather broad posterior portion of the clypeus ; antennae 

 extending to about the middle of the elytra, black, the lower four 

 joints flavous, the second joint scarcely smaller than the third, 

 the following joints elongate and slender ; thorax rather more than 

 twice as broad as long, the sides feebly rounded, the posterior 

 margin oblique at the sides, the surface finely and closely punctured, 

 with a transverse sulcus at the middle, more marked at the sides 

 but not extending to the lateral margins, the anterior angles 

 thickened, not produced ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 

 the shoulders not prominent, the punctation fine and close, the 

 interstices slightly wrinkled, epipleurae narrow but continued below 



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