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the middle ; below and the legs flavous ; the metatarsus of the 

 posterior legs very elongate, its extreme base stained with black. 



Bab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. Marshall), on Zizt/phus. 



Amongst the smaller uniformly coloured species of this genus 

 there is none in which the thorax has a similar transverse sulcus ; 

 this character and the colour of the antennas will help in the 

 recognition of the species. 



Candezea moliroensis, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the antennas and the thorax flavous, the latter scarcely 

 perceptibly punctured; elytra very closely and distinctly punc- 

 tured, flavous, a sutural spot at the base, a broad transverse band 

 at the middle, and the lateral and apical margins black. 



Length 4 millim. 



Of very convex and posteriorly widened shape; the head 

 extremely finely punctured at the vertex, rather broad, the frontal 

 elevations narrowly oblique, clypeus broad, triangular ; antenna? 

 fulvous (the last three joints wanting), the third joint double the 

 length of the second ; thorax short, more than twice as broad 

 as long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides perfectly straight, the 

 anterior angles oblique, the surface microscopically punctured, 

 flavous, scutellum fulvous ; elytra strongly convex, very distinctly, 

 closely, and evenly punctured, their epipleuras continued below the 

 middle, black, the disc flavous, the suture at the base with an 

 elongate black spot nearly connected with a very broad transverse 

 band at the middle of triangular shape, its greatest width being at 

 the suture, the margins of which it does not quite reach, the 

 shoulders and the entire lateral and apical margins are likewise 

 black ; below and the legs fulvous ; metatarsus of the posterior 

 legs very long. 



Hub. Moliro, Congo. (Coll. Belgian Mus. and my own.) 



This Candezea much resembles in coloration and otherwise 

 certain varieties of 0. variopennis Jac. from Natal, but in that 

 species the antennas, with the exception of the basal joint and the 

 underside, are nearly always black, the head is less broad, the base 

 of the antennas is more closely approached, and the thorax more 

 distinctly punctured ; but for all that the present species may only 

 be another local variety of the very variable insect to which I have 

 alluded. 



Candezea o'neili, sp. n. 



Below and the tibiae and tarsi black, above testaceous ; antennae 

 fuscous; thorax impunctate ; elytra scarcely perceptibly punctured. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, flavous or pale fulvous, the frontal elevations 

 strongly raised and broad, clypeus broad, triangular, with a slightly 

 raised central ridge, labrum piceous ; antennas extending below the 

 middle of the elytra, slender,the second joint short, the third, one-half 

 longer, the following joints very elongate and equal ; thorax scarcely 

 one-half broader than long, slightly narrowed at the base and apex, 



