1900.] EROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 205 



Lema dunbrodiensis, sp. U. 



Fulvous, the breast and the abdomen black ; thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, strongly punctured at the middle ; elytra strongly 

 punctate-striate, pale fulvous ; a sutural band, a spot on the 

 shoulders, and another at the sides anteriorly, black. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head fulvous, impunctate ; the eyes entire, the accompanying 

 grooves shallow and finely pubescent ; the labrum black ; the 

 antennas short and stout, fulvous, the second joint moniliforin, 

 the third aud fourth equal, longer, the fifth and following joints 

 subquadrately widened ; thorax subcylindrical, scarcely constricted 

 at the base, the basal sulcus deep, the surface strongly punctured 

 near the anterior angles and at the middle of the disc, the punctures 

 at the latter place arranged in three rows ; scutelluin black ; elytra 

 paler in colour than the thorax, distinctly depressed below the 

 base, strongly and closely punctate-striate, the punctures indistinct 

 near the apex, the interstices not raised or slightly so near the 

 lateral margins ; the suture narrowly black, this colour extending 

 laterally as far as the secoud row of punctures, and having a slight 

 dilation near the depression and near the apex ; a small black spot 

 is placed on the shoulders, followed by a short stripe below at the 

 lateral margin ; the breast and abdomen black, clothed with short 

 yellow pubescence : the legs fulvous, the last joint of the tarsi and 

 the claws more or less black. 



Hub. Dunbrody, Cape Colony, S. Africa. 



I received a single specimen of this species kindly sent by the 

 Kev. O'Neil, who states that it is the only species he took in this 

 locality by sweeping. 



Lema natalensis Jac. = L. tarsata Jac, var. 



Of this species Mr. Marshall has sent me some more specimens, 

 which prove the iusect to be a most variable one in regard to colour ; 

 also that L. tarsata Jac. (described by me P. Z. S. 1897, p. 241) is 

 but one of the varieties. The species may always be recognized by 

 the distinct tooth-like tubercles at the anterior angles of the thorax 

 and the peculiar sculpture of the latter. The varieties at present 

 before me are : — 



a. The thorax and elytra fulvous, the former with a small black 

 spot at the middle of the basal sulcation ; legs piceous. 



b. Thorax and legs as in var. a, the elytra entirely dark blue. 

 In the typical form L. natalensis the legs are fulvous and the tarsi 



black, the thorax and the elytra are either fulvous with a sutural 

 and lateral bluish stripe or entirely dark blue ; the head in all the 

 forms is always black as well as the antennas, but the lower three 

 or four joints of the latter are fulvous. The varieties have been 

 obtained in Mashonaland. 



Lema nigrotibialis, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the apical joints of the antennas, the tibiae (their base 

 excepted) and the tarsi black; thorax not longer than broad, deeply 



