1904.] AFRICAN PHYTOPUAGOUS COLEOPTEFvA. 237 



Mas. The left mandible abi'uptl}^ curved and ending in a long 

 point. 



Length 6 niillim. 



Head with three small foveie, placed triangularly, metallic 

 green, distinctly and subremotely punctured and sparingly clothed 

 with short hairs, the anterior margin of the epistome feebly 

 concave ; labrum and palpi fulvous, mandibles metallic green at 

 the base, the strongly curved apex fulvous ; antenna? not extending 

 to the base of the thorax, the lower four joints fulvous, the others 

 black, the second and third joints very short, the fourth but 

 slightly longer, the following joints transverse but feebly dentate ; 

 thorax strongly transverse, the anterior margin straight, the 

 posterior angles rounded, the surface convex, impunctate, fulvous ; 

 scutellum black, pointed, obsoletely ridged ; elyti'a closely, strongly, 

 and somewhat rugosely punctured, fulvous, with an elongately 

 subquadrate metallic green spot at the base, extending nearly to 

 the middle but not quite to the suture, and another more trans- 

 versely shaped spot near the ajaex, with its posterior margin 

 concave, this spot does not extend to eithei' margin ; underside 

 metallic green, closely covered with silveiy pubescence, the femora 

 likewise green and pubescent, the base of the anterior femora and 

 the tibife and tarsi fulvous, the anterioi- tarsi elongate, the first 

 joint longer than the second. 



Hah. Zambesi {Braclshaw) (my collection). 



This little species almost resembles M. aidica Lac, but is at 

 once distinguished by the fulvous not metallic-green thorax, and 

 by the position of the fii'st elytral spot, which is placed close to 

 the base instead of below it. I only know the male of this 

 species. 



MiOPMSTIS BREVITARSIS, Sp. n. 



Black, the thorax flavous, with two lai'ge black spots, coai'sely 

 punctured ; elytl-a very closely punctui-ed, testaceous, with three 

 black spots near' the lateral margins and anothei- near the suture 

 below the middle. 



3£as. The anterior legs elongate, theii' tai'si I'ather short. 



Length 5 millim. 



Very closely allied to M. suhrugosa Jac. and of exactly similar 

 colour and pattern, but evidently a distinct species ; the head 

 finely rugose and pubescent, black, the antennje with the second 

 and thii'd joints fulvous, the i-est black ; thorax with the sides 

 very slightly widened and rounded near the base, punctured, 

 and with two large black spots as in M. subrugosa ; elyti'a very 

 closely and ii'regulai'ly punctui'ed near the base, more regulai-ly 

 and less closely so near the apex, the sides with three black spots 

 near the lateral mai'gins, placed in a row, another spot is situated 

 near the suture below the middle ; legs black, the base of the 

 intermediate and the posterior tibite testaceous. 



Hah. Grahamstown, on mimosa [Rev. J. A. O'Neil). 



The difierences between this species and 21. sabragotia are as 



