1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 259 



row of deep punctures on each side ; antennae long and slender, the 

 lower three joints flavous below, black above, the following five 

 and the last joint of the latter colour, the ninth and tenth 

 pale flavous, basal joint long and curved, club-shaped, second 

 slightly shorter than the third ; thorax nearly quadrate, the 

 sides very feebly rounded at the middle, the anterior angles 

 thickened, the posterior margin rounded, the surface crowded with 

 punctures of different sizes, fulvous ; scutellum small, trigonate ; 

 elytra widened towards the apex, of similar sculpture to the 

 thorax, fulvous, the basal and lateral margins (the latter to below 

 the middle), a short stripe at the middle of the base, followed by a 

 longer stripe placed at the middle of the disc, curved and thickened 

 at its apex, black, between these two stripes another indistinct 

 black line is seen in some specimens as well as a minute black spot 

 at the extreme apex of the elytra ; below and the legs fulvous, the 

 knees, base of the tibiae, and the tarsi more or less piceous ; the 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following joints 

 together ; elytral epipleurae very broad at the base, indistinct below 

 the middle. 



Hab. Verulam, Natal (O. Marshall). 



A well-marked species and resembling much M. nir/rolineata 

 Motsch., from Japan, but of different sculpture, the head black, and 

 the colour of the antennae and legs different. 



MONOCIDA INORNATA, sp. n. 



Below blackish, above flavous ; antennae black, the lower 

 three joints fulvous ; thorax with a few extremely minute punctures ; 

 elytra more distinctly but finely and very closely punctured ; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head fulvous, impunctate, the frontal tubercles strongly 

 developed ; clypeus in shape of a narrow transverse ridge ; antennae 

 slender, black, the lower three joints fulvous or entirely of the first- 

 named colour, third joint one half longer than the second, fourth 

 twice the length of the third ; thorax subquadrate, distinctly 

 narrowed at the base, the sides rounded before the middle, the 

 anterior angles slightly prominent, the surface with a few minute 

 punctures ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, the shoulders 

 prominent, the punctation very close and fine, the epipleurae 

 continued below the middle ; breast and abdomen blackish, the 

 last abdominal segments more or less flavous ; femora fulvous; all 

 the tibiae mucronate, the four posterior ones (the base excepted) 

 and the tarsi black ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long 

 as the following two joints together ; claws appendiculate, the 

 anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hab. Headlands, Mashonaland (6r. Marshall). 



This, the second species of the genus, may possibly be a local form 

 of M, suturata Jac. (P. Z. S. 1899, p. 370), but the head is fulvous 

 and the elytra have no sutural nor lateral black bands and are 

 more strongly punctured ; the constriction of the thorax at the 



