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cupreous patch, which widens somewhat at the sides, the suture 

 and lateral margins likewise more or less greenish aeneous ; below 

 nearly black, the legs fulvous ; prosternum strongly punctured. 



Bab. Salisbury, Mashonaland, obtaiued by sweeping (G. Mar- 

 shall). 



It is probable that the unicolorous flavous specimen represents 

 the female of this species, since the anterior tarsi are more slender 

 and thinner than in the specimens which I look upon as the 

 other sex, but there is only a single individual of the former sex 

 before me. 



COLASPOSOMA CONRADI, Sp. U. 



Metallic green with fulvous gloss, base of the femora flavous, 

 tibiae fulvous ; thorax very closely and finely pixnetured ; elytra 

 strongly and irregularly punctured, with traces of longitudinal 

 lines, the sides strongly rugose in both sexes. 



Fern. Elytra with a smooth, rather broad, longitudinal costa 

 near the suture. 



Length 6-8 millim. 



Head finely longitudinally strigose at the sides of the vertex, 

 the latter sparingly punctured ; clypeus more stronglv punctate, 

 not separated from the face, but with a small fovea at the base, its 

 anterior margin slightly concave-emarginate ; labrum and palpi 

 fulvous ; antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, the lower 

 six joints fulvous, the others black, rather widened ; thorax three 

 times broader than long, the sides rounded and with a narrow 

 reflexed margin, the disc closely and finely punctured throughout, 

 with a transverse depression near the anterior margin ; scutellum 

 broad, with a few strong punctures ; elytra with a fulvous tint, 

 strongly and closely punctured, the punctures arranged in rows 

 near the suture ; the interstices smooth and slightly raised near the 

 apex, strongly transversely rugose at the sides, the lateral margin 

 accompanied by two distinctly raised smooth costa? ; underside 

 nearly smooth, metallic green, the sides of the abdomen and 

 of the breast fulvous ; femora metallic green, their base flavous, 

 tibiae fulvous, the apex and the tarsi dark aeneous ; pi'osternum 

 very broad, clothed with grey pubescence. 



Hub. Cameroons {Conrad). 



This species will not be very difficult to recognize on account of 

 the flavous base of the femora and the strongly rugose sides of the 

 elytra in both sexes ; in the female this is, however, still much 

 more pronounced, as well as the elytral costae. I received two 

 specimens from Dr. Kraatz. C. antiquum Har. is a closely allied 

 species, but differs iu the much more finely and evenly punctured 

 elytra and in the colour of the antennae and legs. C. abdominale 

 Lefev. (lefevrei Baly) is described with testaceous antennae and 

 legs, but seems otherwise closely allied. 



COLASPOSOMA ALUTACEUM, sp. n. 



Dark aeneous, finely pubescent, the antennae and tarsi piceous ; 



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