270 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Lebistina subcruciata, Fairm., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1894, p. 314. 



Ovate, ampliate behind, moderately convex, hardly shining, rufous 

 v^ith the elytra more yellowish, and having a subquadrate scutellary 

 black patch, and also a large transverse one past the middle, reaching 

 nearly outer margins, and connected with the basal one by the 

 sutural band, there is also an oblong humeral black spot on each 

 side and the sinuation of the posterior margin is moderately well 

 defined ; the antennae, with the exception of the first joint, the 

 knees, tibiae, and tarsi are black ; head closely punctured with small 

 transverse impressions between the antennae ; palpi black ; prothorax 

 transverse, short, with the sides rounded, finely and closely punc- 

 tured, finely rugose, slightly striate in the middle of the disk, with 

 the outer sides somewhat broadly depressed with the margin raised, 

 and the posterior one oblique on each side with the angles acute and 

 straight ; scutellum ogival with the apex acute, punctulate ; elytra 

 moderately ample, broadly truncate behind, finely striate on the 

 upper part, striae smooth and intervals plane, with moderately close 

 punctures ; under side almost smooth, femora moderately thick, 

 tibiae with a moderate groove. Length 9 mm. 



Hah. South Africa (Ovampoland) . 



Lebistina Holubi. 



Head brick-red, closely and deeply punctured ; antennae and palpi 

 totally black ; prothorax one-third broader than long, brick-red, very 

 rugose ; elytra subelongate, gradually ampliate from the shoulder to 

 past three-fourths of the length where they are broader by one-fourth, 

 somewhat convex, striate, with the striae shallow and the intervals 

 broad and roughly punctured, brick-red with a dorsal black band 

 beginning at a distance from the base and reaching short of the 

 apex, covering the second, third, and fourth intervals, but acuminate 

 in the anterior part ; under side reddish brown, femora red with the 

 apical part, the tibiae and tarsi black. 



Shape and sculpture of L. caffra, but a little more elongated. 

 Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Marico). 



Gen. AESINOfi, Castelnau, 

 Etudes Entom., 1835, p. 58. 



Axinopsophns, Chaud., Bull. Mosc, 1837, pt. 3, p. 9. 



Mentum broadly emarginate with the lateral lobes straight in- 

 wardly, median part with a long, triangular tooth ; ligula short, 

 horny, gradually ampliated towards the apex, truncate at the tip 



