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Syoplia africanus, sp. n. 



Elongate, pubescent, testaceous ; antennae long and slender ; 

 thorax transverse, impunctate ; elytra closely and strongly punctate- 

 striate and pubescent. 



Length 5 millini. 



Head broad, impunctate, the frontal elevations short, strongly 

 raised, the eyes large and ixmnd ; the antennae slender, extending 

 beyond the middle of the elytra, testaceous, all the joints, with the 

 exception of the second, elongate and pubescent ; thorax about 

 one- half broader than long, of equal width, the sides slightly con- 

 stricted at the base, feebly rounded anteriorly, furnished with 

 single long black hairs, posterior margin preceded by a strongly 

 impressed groove, the surface impunctate and shining ; scutellum 

 triangular, rather broad ; elytra elongate and parallel, wider at the 

 base than the thorax, deeply and closely punctate-striate, the punc- 

 tures large and round, but much finer near the apex, the interstices 

 clothed with fine fulvous pubescence and longer single hairs ; legs 

 long and slender, the first joint of the posterior tarsi very elongate ; 

 the anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hab. Assynia, West Coast of Africa (Ch. Alluaud), and Came- 

 roons (Conrad). 



This is the only species of the genus known to me from Africa, 

 the other members inhabiting Java and Sumatra. The present 

 insect at first sight entirely resembles the type of the genus, 

 S. javanensis Jac, but the punctation of the elytra is quite different, 

 the punctures being larger, less closely placed, and the interstices 

 flat. I received one specimen from M. Alluaud and another from 

 Dr. Kraatz. 



Notes and Corrections. 



Pseudocolaspis puberula Marsh. 



This species must find its place in Macetes Chap. 



Diacantha divisa, Gerst. (sub Aulacophora). 



This species and Axdacojfhora conifera Pairm. are of exactly similar 

 coloration, and Mr. G-ahan has expressed a doubt, in describing his 

 species D. mutica (P. Z. S. 1893, p. 747), to which of these the female 

 described by Gerstacker may belong. I possess a female specimen 

 which undoubtedly represents Gerstacker's species, as it entirely 

 agrees with the description. In the same sex in A. conifera the 

 scutellum is always flavous, not black, the joints of the antennae are 

 more slender and elongate, and the thorax is much less strongly 

 subangulate before the middle ; all the females of A. conifera differ 

 in these respects from A. divisa, and I have not much doubt that 

 D. mutica represents the male sex of Gerstacker's species. 



Poejjhila costatijjennis Jac. (P. Z. S. 1899, p. 364). 

 This species and P. fulvipes Jac. of the same paper should 

 find their places amongst the Halticince instead of the Oalerucinos. 



