238 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON [Feb. 16, 



follows : — The entire head in the present insect is black instead 

 of having the epistome flavous, the basal joint of the antennae is 

 likewise black, not fulvous ; the thorax, instead of having the 

 sides rounded and widened at the middle, has these portions 

 nearly straight except neai- the base ; the anteidoi- legs ai-e 

 entirely black, and their tai'si have the joints distinctly shorter ; 

 lastly, the entire undei'side is black, without a testaceovis abdomen. 

 I received a single male specimen from the Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 



TiTUBCEA UMTALIENSIS, Sp. n. 



Black, the head pubescent ; thoi-ax very closely punctured, the 

 smterior and part of the lateral mai-gins flavous ; elytra semi- 

 i-egularly punctured, pale fulvous, a ti-ansvei'se band befoi-e the 

 middle, extending to the shoulders, another band below the middle 

 and a spot near the apex black. 



Mas. Anterior legs veiy elongate as well as the tarsi. 



Length 10-11 millim. 



Head finely rugose and pubescent, the anterior margin of the 

 epistome straight ; antennae black, the lower four joints fulvous, 

 the foui-th joint tiiangularly dentate ; thorax transvei-se, the sides 

 nearly sti'aight, the posterior angles i-ounded, the surface strongly 

 punctured antei-ioi-ly, rnoi-e closely and finely so neai- the base, 

 with a longitudinal groove at the middle of the latter, the anterior 

 margin flavous, in shape of a nai'i'ow band extending to the 

 antei'ioi- portion of the sides, the median lobe of the basal margin 

 bi-oadly rounded and produced ; scutellum black, the apex i-ounded ; 

 elytra rather closely and semiregularly punctured, the interstices 

 obsoletely costate near the apex, the lateral lobes below the 

 shoulders rather pronounced, the ground-colour flavous, the first 

 black band placed before the middle and consisting of two elongate 

 connected spots, of which one is placed at the shoulders, the other 

 at the disc ; the second band below the middle is of moi-e regular 

 shape, but also sinuate at the margins, another transvei'se spot 

 is placed near the apex. 



Hah. Umtali, Mashonaland {G. Marshall) ; also Zanzibar. 



There are four or five very closely allied species of Tituheea 

 Ivnown from Africa, and this one seems to difier from all of them ; 

 the very elongate anterioi- legs and tarsi place the present insect 

 in Tituhoea. It differs from T. abyssimca Lef ev. in having a mnch 

 more transversely-shaped thoi-ax and in the uninterrupted fulvous 

 band of the latter, also in the entirely diffei-ent sculpturing of the 

 elyti'a and the shape of their black bands. T. pubifrons Jac. 

 (sub Gamptolenes) is a narrower insect, with fulvous mandibles 

 and similai'ly coloured tibite, the thorax is mucli more finely and 

 sparingly punctured, and the elytra! bands are narrower and of 

 more regular- shape ; T. thoracica Jac. has a diflierently shaped 

 thorax with discoidal depressions on that part, the elytiu have 

 no apical spot, and the tibia} ai-e fulvous ; lastly, T. rugosa Jac. 

 difiers in having a very closely punctured and almost entirely 

 fulvous thorax, more closely and irregularly punctured elytra, and 



