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In Ihe female of this species the antennae are much shorter and 

 the last six joints are moniliform in shape. M, picea Baly is a much 

 larger insect and has the thorax coarsely punctured. 



Grepidodera analis Harold. 



A spécimen contained in my collection agrées in every respect 

 with V. Harold's original diagnosis but the insect must find its place 

 in Phygasia in spite of the finely punctate-striate elytra, as the ante- 

 rior coxal cavities are open and the shape of the thorax and its sul- 

 cus entirely agrées with Ihose species of the last named genus. The 

 coloration of this species is so marked that it cannot be mistaken for 

 any other. 



GALERUCIDJE 



GALERUGELLA MADAGASGARIENSIS n. sp. 



Pale fuscous, finely pubescent, the apical joints of the antennse, 

 the femora (partly), the apex of the tibise and the tarsi, black, thorax 

 short and transverse with three dépressions, finely punctured, ely- 

 tra widened, minutely rugose-punctate and clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence. 



Length 8 mill. 



Of broad, posteriorly widened shape, the head strongly rugose 

 between the eyes, the frontal élévations feeble, clypeus likewise 

 rugose-punctate, its anterior margin straight, antennse extending 

 beyond the middle of the elytra, the lower four joints pale flavous, 

 the others black, the fourth joint longer than the third and the lon- 

 gest; thorax nearly three times broader than long, the sides feebly 

 rounded, the anterior angles produced into a small tooth, furnished 

 with a single seta, the surface with a central obsolète and a latéral 

 more strongly marked fovea, irregularly and rather sparingly punc- 

 tured, scutellum blackish ; elytra convex, strongly widened poste- 

 riorly, finely rugosely punctured and clothed with very short ful- 

 vous pubescence; below black, the abdomen, the apex of the femora 

 and the base of the tibiae testaceous, the latter unarmed, the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi scarcely as long as the fallowing two 

 joints together, claws bifid^ the anterior coxal cavities open. 



Hab. Diego Suarez. 



Note. — In my descriptions of African Phytophaga in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoolog. Soc. 1900. I bave stated that ail the types 



