1904.] AFRICAX PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTEKA. 265 



Hah. Ifafa Mountains, ISTatal (C. Barher). 



Very closely allied to S. sexplagiata Jac, likewise from Natal, 

 but without any elytral spots and their sculpturing entirely 

 irregular, not arranged in rows, the flanks of the thorax also 

 without the band of dense pubescence so prominent in the other 

 species. I received three specimens from Mr. Barker. 



SCELODONTA LEFEVREI, sp. n. 



Dark cupreous, pubescent, the antennte (the basal joint excepted) 

 black ; thorax densely transversely stiigose ; elytra strongly 

 punctured in rows, the interstices rugose and pubescent, each 

 elytron with five fuscous spots 2.2.1; femora dentate. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head finely rugose- jounctate and sparingly pubescent, the vertex 

 convex without gi-oove, ocular sulci very deep and broad ; antennaj 

 black, the lower th}-ee joints cupreous ; thorax transverse, of 

 usual shape, strongly tiunsversely strigose, the interstices 

 sparingly punctured and furnished with single white hairs, 

 cupreous, the sides with a -very obscure fuscous band ; scutellum 

 pentagonal, with a few hairs ; elyti-a obliquely shaped at the 

 shoulders, deeply and closely punctured in rows, the interstices 

 transversely rugose, the shoulders, an elongate spot at the middle 

 of the base, two roundish spots placed transversely below the 

 middle and another more elongate one near the apex at the sides, 

 fuscous, interstices at the apex costate, sides of the thorax below 

 and of the breast densely pubescent ; femora with a very short 

 tooth. 



Hah. Beira, E. Africa (^1. Sheppard). 



Nearly allied to S. vicina Har. and S. inaculosa Lefev., but 

 the position and the shape of the elytral spots quite different, the 

 pubescence also much longer ; the longitudinal elytral depressions 

 in S. vicina are also absent in the present species, of which I 

 received three specimens from Mr. Sheppard. 



Body oblong, pubescent ; antennse filiform, the third joint twice 

 as long as the second ; thorax one-half broader than long, not 

 widened, with distinct lateral margins, the angles dentiform, 

 surface pubescent ; elytra finely punctured in rows, closely 

 pubescent, femora thickened, the anterior and posterior ones with 

 a strong tooth, tibise simple, claws appendiculate ; prosternum 

 very narrow between the coxfe, elongate, anterior margin of the 

 thoracic episternum concave. 



There is no group of Eimiolpidce into which the present genus 

 can be satisfactorily placed, since the pubescent upper surface 

 agrees with that of the Heteraspinm, in which the posterior tibite 

 are, however, emarginate and the claws bifid ; in the Odontiono^ 

 'pince the claws are appendiculate, but the intermediate tibipe are 



