1899.] PHYTOPHAGOTJS OOLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 377 



thau long, tlie sides rounded anteriorly, constricted at the base, 

 the disc deeply transversely suleate, impunctate, the anterior 

 portion with some minute punctures, the sulcation not extending 

 to the sides ; elytra with the basal portion feebly raised, extremely 

 minutely punctured near the suture only, the rest of the surface 

 impunctate ; below and the legs flavous, the metatarsus of the 

 posterior legs as long as the following joints together, tibise 

 unarmed; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hah. Lindi, Africa {Bcmg-Haas). 



The single male specimen which I i-eceived from Herr Bang- 

 Haas with the above locality, which is unknown to me, is of a 

 purplish fulvous or reddish colour above and agrees in the excavate 

 head with many other species of the genus, but the structure of 

 the excavation differs from that of the aUied species ; the palpi 

 are robust. 



Macbima afeicana, sp. n. (Plate XXI. fig. 9.) 



Mavous ; the base of the head, the antennae, and the abdomen 

 black ; thorax bifoveolate, impunctate ; elytra closely punctured and 

 rugose and sparingly pubescent, metallic blue ; legs tiavous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head flavous, the vertex bluish black, impunctate, the frontal 

 tubercles narrowly transverse, the clypeus depressed at each side ; 

 penultimate joint of the palpi thickened, elongate ; antennae long 

 and slender, black, the basal joint flavous below, second very 

 small, third as long as the first joint, the following slightly shorter ; 

 thorax subquadrate, one-half broader than long, distinctly narrowed 

 at the base, the angles acute but not prominent ; the disc bifoveo- 

 late, impunctate, flavous ; scutellum black ; elytra narrowly elongate, 

 metallic blue, closely punctured and finely rugose, their epipleurse 

 broad and continued below the middle ; legs elongate, flavous, 

 tibi.Te mucronate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi longer than 

 the following joints together ; claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal 

 cavities closed ; abdomen black. 



Hcib. Salisbury, Mashoualand (Gr. MarsliaU). 



This insect agrees almost entirely in coloration with one de- 

 scribed by Chapuis as Xenartlira orphana, from Abyssinia; but in 

 that species the antennae are entirely flavous, the tibia are unarmed, 

 and the general size is smaller. 



Candezea punctato-lineata, sp. n. 



Black, the basal joints of the antennae and the thorax and legs 

 fulvous ; head and thorax impunctate ; elytra black, finely punc- 

 tured in closely approached semiregular rows. 



Length 4 millim. 



Elongate, narrow and convex in shape; the head blackish, 

 opaque, entirely impunctate, the clypeus flavous ; antennae slender, 

 the basal joint long and curved, the second short, the third twice 

 the length of the second, the remaining joints slightly shorter, 

 the basal five joints flavous, the others piceous ; thorax twice as 



