236 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON [Feb. 16, 



Length 5 millim. 



Elongate and parallel, clothed with very short grey pubescence, 

 the head irregularly punctured with a rather deep central groove, 

 metallic blue ; eyes entire, round ; antenna? slender, the first joint 

 elongate, curved, the second moniliform, the thiixl scarcely longer 

 but thinner, the following four joints triangularly dentate, the 

 rest of normal shape ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, 

 the sides widened and strongly rounded at the posterior angles, 

 the entire disc closely rugose-punctate, the anterior margin with 

 a narrow short transverse band at each side, posterior margin 

 sinuate at each side ; scutellum broad, punctured, with a feeble 

 middle ridge ; elytra rather narrower at the base than the thorax, 

 finely transversely wrinkled throughout, subopaque, a round spot 

 near the scutellum, a narrow transverse band (strongly constricted 

 at the sides) at the middle, another one near the apex, and the 

 lateral and apical margins flavous. 



Hah. Willowmore, Cape Town {Dr. H. Brcmns). 



Of this pretty little species Dr. Brauns kindly sent me three 

 specimens, one male and two females ; the anterior tibite of the 

 male are strongly curved and the tarsi very elongate. 



MioPRiSTis o'neili, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig. 8.) 



Black ; thorax impunctate, fulvous, with two la,rge black spots ; 

 elytra tes-taceous, finely punctate-striate, the sutural margins veiy 

 narrowly and a broad longitudinal stripe at the sides black ; legs 

 flavous, maiked with black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head rugosely punctured between the eyes and pubescent ; 

 mandibles broad, robust, obscure flavous ; antennae black, the 

 lower four joints fulvous, the first joint subquadrate, short, the 

 second and third joints short, the fifth and following joints tri- 

 angularly widened ; thorax of equal width, strongly transverse, 

 the sides strongly I'ounded, the disc with a triangular sti'ongly- 

 punctured depression at the middle of the anterior margin, fulvoxis, 

 impunctate, the sides with a large subquadrate black spot, anothei- 

 small spot is placed at the middle of the posterior margin ; scu- 

 tellum narrow, raised ; elytra subopaque, with fine irregular rows 

 of punctures, obsolete near the apex, the shoulders with a broad 

 longitudinal stripe not extending to the apex, the suture also very 

 narrowly black, excepting at the base ; the anterioi' femora strongly 

 incrassate, black as well as the tibife, the apex of both slightly 

 stained with fulvous ; the rest of the legs pale flavous, the femora 

 more or less, the apex of the tibias and the tarsi black. 



Hah. Dunbrody, Cape Colony {Rev. J. A. O'N'ei'l), on mimosa. 



MiopRiSTis (Atelechira) zambesiana, sp. n. 



Metallic green, the basal joints of the antennae, the thorax, and 

 the tibife and tarsi fulvous ; thorax impunctate ; elytra very closely 

 punctured, fulvous, a subquadi-ate spot at the base and another 

 near the apex metallic green. 



