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MOTfOLEPTA KIESCHI, Sp. n. 



Dark violaceous blue, the antennae and the legs black ; thorax 

 impunctate ; elytra very finely and closely punctured. 



Length 5 millim. 



Elongate-ovate, widened posteriorly ; the head impunctate, 

 metallic dark blue, the frontal elevations distinct, broad, transverse, 

 labram black ; antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra, 

 black, the third joint twice as long as the second, but distinctly 

 shorter than the fourth, the last-named and the remaining joints 

 equal ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, widened at the 

 middle, the sides strongly deflexed, the lateral margins very slightly 

 rounded, the anterior angles thickened, the posterior margin broadly 

 rounded and produced, the surface impunctate ; scutellum trian- 

 gular, impunctate ; elytra convex and widened posteriorly, finely 

 and very closely punctured, dark violaceous, their epipleurge indis- 

 tinct below the middle ; legs black, long and slender, the metatarsus 

 of the posterior legs longer than half the length of the tibiae. 



Hah. Salisbury, Mashonaland {G. Marshall) ; also Natal. 



This Monolepta may be known from every other species of the 

 genus by the uniform dark violaceous colour and the long meta- 

 tarsus of the posterior legs. I have seen four specimens from 

 Salisbury and one from Natal. 



Monolepta ditisa, sp. n. 



Eufous ; the head anteriorly, the antennae, thorax, and legs 

 flavous, the base of the head black ; thorax finely and closely 

 punctured ; elytra of similar sculpture, rufous, the base with a 

 transverse black band. 



Length 4-5 millim. 



Head impunctate, black at the vertex, the lower portion flavous, 

 labrum piceous ; eyes very large ; antennae slender, flavous, the 

 apical joint black, the second and third joints short, nearly equal ; 

 thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides scarcely rounded, 

 the anterior angles thickened, the posterior ones oblique, surface 

 closely punctured, very finely so near the anterior portion ; 

 scutellum fulvous ; elytra ovate, widened towards the middle, 

 extremely finely and closely punctured, the apex of each broadly 

 rounded, the disc rufous, the base with a transverse black band to 

 the extent of one-fourth the length of the elytra and extending 

 downwards along the sides to near the middle, the epipleurae 

 indistinct below the middle ; the underside and the posterior 

 four legs reddish fulvous, anterior legs flavous. 



Hah. Malvern, Natal {G. Marshall). 



This species could easily be mistaken for Candezea pectoralis Jac, 

 as the coloration is nearly identical, but in the latter species the 

 antennae and legs are black and the head is entirely flavous ; there 

 are besides this the continued elytral epipleurae and a much less 

 transverse thorax. M. hngiuseula Chap, must be another very 

 closely allied species, so far as the coloration is concerned, but is 

 described as having a bla^k abdomen and obscure flavous elytra 



