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GALERUCINjE. 

 ASBECESTA ORNATICOLLIS, sp. n. 



Flavous, the head and the anterior half of the thorax black, the 

 base of the latter fulvous, strongly punctured ; elytra finely and 

 closely punctured, testaceous, the base with a narrow, deeply emar- 

 ginate blue band, another transverse narrow band or spot placed 

 below the middle. 



Length 5 millim. 



This species, of which two specimens were received by Prof. 

 Poulton from Mr. H. J. Mackiuder, who obtained them at Nairobi, 

 Kikuyu Forest, in East Africa, is so closely allied to the following 

 one that it will only be necessary to point out the differences, 

 which comprise the colour of the head and that of the thorax ; the 

 sides of the latter also are almost straight, not so strongly rounded 

 anteriorly ; the bands of the elytra are very narrow and the anterior 

 one is deeply eniarginate, the posterior band still narrower and not 

 quite extending to the suture ; lastly, the scutellum is black, not 

 fulvous ; the underside seems to be of the latter colour, but the 

 specimens being glued to cards I am not quite certain as to this. 



Type in the Oxford Museum Collection. 



Asbecesta ornata, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 11.) 



Flavous, the head and thorax fulvous ; elytra finely and closely 

 punctured, flavous, a trausverse band at the base and another near 

 the apex dark blue. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head impunctate, frontal elevations very strongly raised, trigonate, 

 bounded behind by a deep transverse groove ; clypeus triangular, 

 strongly swollen ; antennae flavous, the third and fourth joints equal, 

 slightly longer than the second, the following joints gradually 

 widened, robust ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the sides 

 strongly rounded before the middle, the disc with a deep trans- 

 verse sulcus, sparingly punctured anteriorly, more closely so within 

 the depression ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra finely and closely 

 punctured, the punctuation indistinct near the apex, the ground- 

 colour pale flavous, the base with a transverse, rather broad, dark 

 blue band, extending a little way downwards at the sides, with its 

 posterior margin rather deeply indented near the suture, near the 

 apex another equally broad band extends from the lateral to the 

 sutural margin ; the sides of the elytra with a rather strongly marked 

 longitudinal sulcation ; below pale fulvous, the legs flavous. 



Hah. Malvern, Natal (Barker) ; also Mozambique. 



I received several specimens of this distinct species from Mr. 

 Barker. A single specimen from Mozambique contained in my 

 collection differs in the shape of the posterior elytral band, which 

 surrounds the sides and apical margins, including a spot of the 

 ground-colour ; other differences I am unable to find. 



