ON SOME SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA 



COLLECTED BY CAP. V. BOTTEGO 



IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SOMALILAND 



BY MARTIN JACOBY 



1. Euryope discoidalis, n. sp. — Black, head and thorax finely 

 and partly punctured, the former with lateral oblique grooves, 

 elytra finely and closely punctured, flavous with a broad suturai 

 black band, greatly widened anteriorly, pointed at the apex. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head black, finely and closely punctured near the eyes, the 

 clypeus bounded at the sides by a strongly raised oblique ridge, 

 antennae black , extending to the base of the thorax , the five 

 last joints broadly dilated, thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides straight, oblique, very strongly narrowed towards 

 the base , the anterior angles produced into a strong tubercle , 

 the surface very finely punctured with a deep transverse sulcus 

 near the base, black, shining, scutellum black, elytra wider at 

 the base than the thorax, with a deep but short depression 

 below the base near the suture , scarcely more strongly punc- 

 tured than the thorax, the sides flavous, the disc occupied by a 

 broad black suturai band which widenes triangularly at the place 

 of the depression but gradually narrowes towards the apex 

 round which it is continued and also extends upwards along the 

 epipleurae, underside and legs black. 



Hab. Brava, October (A single specimen). 



Differing from any of its allies in the pattern of the elytra , 

 although somewhat resembling in this respect E. Hohneli, Lefèv. 

 but at once distinguished from that species by the black head, 

 thorax and underside. 



