214 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



widened ; thorax one-half broader than long, the sides widened at 

 the middle, the surface with a transverse anterior and posterior 

 sulcus, black, impunctate and clothed with grey pubescence, scutellum 

 black, pubescent ; elytra finely but not closely punctured, flavous, 

 the pubescence fulvous, the suture extremely narrowly black, below 

 and the legs black, clothed with long white hairs. 



Hal. East Africa. 



A small species of which I possess a single specimen 

 without detailed locality and of similar coloration as P. 

 senegalensis, Lac, the posterior legs are unfortunately 

 wanting, the insect has the antennas of Poecilomorpha and 

 the thorax of Leucastra on account of the two sulci, 

 although the posterior groove is very narrow, and either 

 genus would have been suitable for its reception ; the 

 fulvous antennas and the white long pubescence of the 

 under side separates the species from P. senegalensis. 



Poecilomorpha bicolor, sp. n. 



Reddish-fulvous, shining, the antenna) and the anterior four legs 

 black, thorax strongly angulate near the base, impunctate, elytra 

 finely and remotely punctured, with short fulvous pubescence. 



Length 7 inillim. 



Head rather strongly punctured between the eyes, clypeus separated 

 by a deep transverse groove, palpi thin, fulvous, antenna) with the 

 fifth and the following joints strongly transversely dilated, black, 

 the basal joint obscure flavous ; thorax with the sides strongly 

 obliquely narrowed anteriorly and strongly angulate at the base with 

 a deep transverse groove near the anterior margin and a more obsolete 

 one near the base, the disc entirely impunctate and sparingly clothed 

 with fulvous pubescence, elytra fulvous and shining, not closely but 

 distinctly punctured and sparingly pubescent ; below and the 

 posterior femora fulvous, the latter with a black spot at the base, 

 tibiae and tarsi blackish, strongly clothed with yellowish hairs. 



Hat. Africa, Niger-Benue Expedit. {Bang-Haas). 



Of this species, which seems allied to P. amalilis, Baly, 

 I received a single, apparently female, specimen from Dr. 

 Staudinger and Herr Bang-Haas ; the uniform coloration, 

 the impunctate thorax and the colour of the legs separate 

 the species from any of its allies; in my specimen the 

 posterior femora are moderately thickened and do not 

 extend to the apex of the abdomen, and their tibiae are 

 curved. 



