252 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



median black patch stopping far short of the apex, and broader in 

 the posterior part where it reaches the sixth stria instead of the 

 fourth in the anterior part ; apical part of abdominal segments, and 

 often the two "ultimate ones, infuscate. Length 7-7f mm. ; width 

 3 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere, D'Urban), Damaraland (Kookarrah), Zambezia 

 (Salisbury) . 



This species is closely allied to the preceding one, but the 

 intervals of the elytra are more raised, and the post-median patch 

 smaller and disconnected from the apical margin, whereas it invades 

 the whole of the posterior part in L. 2^'i''ceHstus ; I have, however, 

 seen some examples from Salisbury in which the elytra were light 

 brown, and darker in the posterior part where the transverse patch 

 becomes ill-defined. 



Phlceozetus cyaneus. 



Dark steel-blue, shining ; first, second, and third basal joints of 

 antennae partly rufescent ; head slightly punctured in the anterior 

 part ; prothorax slightly aciculate ; elytra elongate, subparallel, 

 finely punctato-striate, with the intervals plane ; under side, palpi, 

 and legs blue-black. Length 5-5-|- mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Natal (Frere). 



Gen. LEBIA, Latreille, 

 Hist. Nat. Ins., viii., 1804, p. 247. 



Mentum moderately broad, with a median tooth more or less 

 projecting and sometimes bifid ; ligula and paraglossse of equal 

 length, setulose at the tip, soldered together, paraglossae narrow- 

 ing towards the tip with the outer side rounded and hirtose, 

 the apical part as well as that of the ligula with long bristles ; 

 last joint of labial and maxillary palpi subfusiform and truncate at 

 the very tip ; labrum broader than long ; antennae subfiliform, 

 second joint shorter by one-half than the third, the others subequal ; 

 head narrowed behind the eyes, which are very prominent; prothorax 

 short, broader than long, more or less rounded in the anterior part, 

 the posterior angles recurved slightly and projecting; elytra plane, 

 subparallel, truncate behind, striate or punctato-striate, with two 

 punctures on the third interval placed respectively at, nearly equal 

 distance from base and apex ; legs moderately long ; anterior tarsi 

 short, the fourth joint either incised or broadly lobate ; claws pecti- 

 nate, the teeth not exceeding six on each side of the claw.* 



Hah. The genus is represented in Europe, North and South Ame- 

 rica, Africa, Asia, India, Burmah, Java, Australia, and New Zealand. 



* One of my examples of L. insidiosa lias six well-defined teeth on each side, 

 but in a second example the sixth basal tooth is hardly noticeable. 



