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Hab. Beira, E. Africa [A. Shejypard). 



Very closely allied to C. sacchi Jac. (Ann. Genoa Mus. xxxix. 

 p. 523, 1899), but I think a distinct species ; the system of 

 coloration is exactly similar, but the present insect is larger, of 

 more robust shape, the thorax is still more closely punctured, the 

 spots and elytra! suture are blue not black, and the pygidium is 

 margined with fulvous ; the claws. are also more distinctly appen- 

 diculate, not simple ; the posterior elytral spot is of moi"e elongate 

 shape and placed less closely to the suture than in C. sacchi. In 

 my description of that species I have given the colour of the 

 antennps as fulvous, but I find that in one specimen the lower 

 joints only are of this colour, as is the case in the present species. 



Cryptocephalus o'neili, sp. n. (Plate XYII. fig. 7.) 



Head black at the vertex ; the lower portion, the basal joints 

 of the antennfe, and the abdomen and legs fulvous ; thorax flavous, 

 with two broad black bands, impunctate ; elytra finely punctate- 

 striate, black, each with five flavous spots (1 .2.2.1). 



Length 5 millim. 



Vertex of the head black, in shape of a transverse band, 

 remotely punctured, the lower portion fulvous, eyes broadly 

 emarginate ; antennfe slender and filiform, the lower five joints 

 fulvous, the rest black, basal joints gradually lengthened ; thorax 

 greatly narrowed anteriorly, the sides feebly rounded, the surface 

 entirely impunctate, flavous, this colour confined to the sides, the 

 anterior margin, and a central narrow band, the rest, in shape of 

 two bi'oad longitudinal bands not extending to the anterior margin, 

 black ; scutellum black, broad, its apex pointed ; elytra with 

 lather fine rows of punctures, the latter not very closely placed, 

 the interstices, with the exception of the outer two, flat, the latter 

 slightly convex, each elytion with five fulvous spots, divided by 

 black bands and placed as follows — a narrow elongate spot at 

 the base of the lateral margin, a lai-ge obliquely-shaped one from 

 the middle of the base to the suture, two spots placed transversely 

 immediately below the middle, and a fifth at the apex of some- 

 what transverse shape ; pygidium, luidei^side, and legs fulvous, the 

 sides of the breast black. 



Hah. Dunbrody, Cape Colony {Rev. J. A. O'jyeil), on Euphorhice. 



This Gryptoceplialiis closely resembles the European G. Q-pusUt- 

 latas Rossi, and also C. 2)ustidah(,s Fab. from Africa, but the 

 number and position of the spots are different, also their shape 

 and the pattern of the thorax differ. 



Cryptocephalus subconxecteks, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig. 3.) 



Fulvous, the vertex of the head and the underside black ; thorax 

 impunctate, with two black bands ; elytra flavous, the suture, a 

 humeral spot and another one near the apex, partly connected 

 with the suture, black, punctuation strong and I'egular, 



Length 5-5| millim. 



Head entii'ely impunctate and without depressions, the vertex 



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