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isolated spots instead of bands. This species is also found in 

 South Africa instead of in the interior, so far as is known at 

 present. The penis is very peculiar, of robust shape, with a 

 central ridge above, the apex broadly widened and divided into 

 an upper and lower acute transverse ridge, the first-named tri- 

 dentate, the lower lidge triangularly pointed at the middle, the 

 sides likewise produced into a broad triangular downwardly 

 directed tooth. The female has, as usual, normal anterior legs 

 and is very strongly and closely punctui'ed, but agrees in all other 

 respects with the male. 



TiTUBCEA PARVULA, Sp. n. 



Black, the head and thorax nearly impunctate ; elytra fulvous, 

 with a bi'oad black transvei'se band near the apex. 



2Ias. The anterior legs and tarsi very elongate, the elyti'a very 

 obsoletely punctured in indistinct rows. 



Fein. Antei'ior legs normal, the elytra shining, very closely 

 punctui-ed in iri'egulai' rows. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head impunctate and without pubescence, the anterior portion 

 finely longitudiuHlly strigose, the epistome narrowed in front, 

 ending in two points ; mandibles i'ol)ust ; iintenme black, the lower 

 three joints fulvous, the basal joint black above ; thorax short and 

 transverse, black, shining, the sides straight, the posterior angles 

 rounded, the disc with an oblique transverse depression anteriorly, 

 impunctate ; scutellum black, pointed ; elytra opaque in the male, 

 with very obsolete rows of fine punctures, fulvous, a transverse 

 bi'oad band near the apex, extending to either mai'gin and 

 narrowed at the suture, black ; anterior legs very elongate, the 

 fii'st joint of their tarsi half the length of the tibia, apex of the 

 lattei- not mucronate. 



I lab. Zambesi. 



A small species, quite unlike most of its allies in coloration, 

 and with a smooth, shining, black thorax. 



Damta strigatipes, sp. n. 



Testaceous ; the head, antennye (the basal joints excepted), the 

 breast and abdomen black ; thorax nairowly mai-gined, impunctate; 

 elyti-a very closely and (listinctly punctured, anterioi' femoi'a black 

 above. 



Var. Head fulvous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head impunctate, black, the vertex with a fulvous spot at each 

 side, transversely sulcate between the eyes ; intraocular space 

 rathei- deeply triangulai-ly depressed, the anterioi' margin of the 

 epistome deeply emarginate, labrum flavous ; antenn?e compara- 

 tively slender, black, the lower three joints flavous ; thorax 

 distinctly nari'owed in front, the anterior margin concave, the 

 sides with a naii'ow reflexed margin, posterior angles obtusely 

 rounded, the surface impunctate, with an obsolete short transverse 



