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No. 2. The antennpe fulvous, joints 2 and 3 darker ; elytra 

 flavous, a sutural spot below the scutellum and the lateral margins 

 dark seneous. 



No. 3. Like No. 2, but each elytron with a small elongate spot 

 below the scutellum. 



In all the specimens the legs are flavous (not black or partly so 

 as in Weise's specimens) ; the breast and abdomen are more or 

 less piceous and finely pubescent. 



As the typical specimens were obtained in the Transvaal, it is 

 of course quite possible that the Malvern examples represent 

 another allied species. 



Lema hirtipennis, sp. n. 



Elongate, pubescent, dark violaceous, the antennfe and legs 

 black ; head rugose ; thorax subquadrate, strongly and closel}' 

 punctured, head and thorax pubescent ; elytra closel}' and strongly 

 punctate -striate, the interstices finely transversely wiinkled and 

 clothed with grey stiff pubescence. 



Length 7 millim. 



Closely allied to L. codestiiia King, but differing in tlie following 

 respects : — The eyes are much smaller and less prominent than 

 in that species, the thorax is shorter, not longer than broad, 

 and instead of being finely transversely wrinkled, is strongly and 

 irregularly punctured, with a feebly-raised middle space or line ; 

 the sculpturing and the piibescence of the elytra are similar to 

 those of L. cfdestina. 



Hah. Mashonaland (a single specimen in my collection). 



MEGALOPODINiE. 



Maorolopha Weise. 



This genus, as well as S'phondylia, has been established, and 

 rightly so, by Weise for the reception of several species formerly 

 placed in Fwcilotnorpha Hope, from which they piincipally difter 

 in the shape of the thorax. So far as I know at present, the 

 following species must likewise be placed in Macroloplia^ viz. : 

 P. lacordairei Westw., P. mttrrayi Baly, P. centromacnlata Jac, 

 and P. niashonana Jac. 



Clythrin^. 



MiOPRISTIS braunsi, sp. n. 



Metallic dark blue or greenish, finely pubescent ; thorax stronglj^ 

 transveise, rugosely punctured, the anterior margin fulvous at 

 each side ; elytra finely transversely rugose, a basal spot, a narrow 

 transverse band at the middle, another near the apex, and the 

 lateral margins flavous. 



2fas. Mandibles very prominent and ctu'ved, the anterior legs 

 very elongate. 



Fern. Mandibles normal, the thorax less transverse, anterior 

 tarsi shorter.. 



