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sides strongly rounded, the angles distinct but not strongly marked, 

 the disc smooth and impunctate, with the exception of a few deep 

 punctures at the middle of the anterior margin, scutellum black ; the 

 elytra narrower at the base than the thorax, pale testaceous, finely 

 and closely punctured ; below black, the femora fulvous, partly 

 black below, the anterior ones strongly thickened and elongate, their 

 inner surface rugose, the lower margin with a row of small teeth, the 

 anterior tibiae strongly curved, black and rugose, the apex with a 

 long spur, the tarsi black, the first joint of the anterior ones as long 

 as the following joints together. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Dunbrody (Rev. O'NeU). 



Quite distinct from M. varipes by the black and rugose 

 head, the smooth thorax and finely punctured elytra ; the 

 same differences and the unspotted thorax and fulvous 

 legs separate the species from M. natalensis, Jac. I 

 received a single male specimen from the Rev. O'Neil. 



Diapromorpha bomaensis, sp. n. 



Black, head closely, thorax remotely but strongly punctured, 

 shining, elytra regularly punctate-striate anteriorly, more irregu- 

 larly so posteriorly, flavous, with a broad transverse black band 

 below the middle, the shoulders with a small black spot. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head black, closely punctured at the middle, shining, with a small 

 central fovea, clypeus nearly impunctate, its anterior margin tri- 

 angularly emarginate, eyes nearly entire, large, antenna black, the 

 second and the following two joints fulvous ; thorax rather more 

 than twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the anterior margin 

 concave, the disc irregularly but rather strongly and remotely 

 punctured, the punctures more closely placed at the sides and near 

 the base, with very small punctures between the larger ones, scutellum 

 triangular, black, with a few minute punctures ; elytra rather feebly 

 lobed below the shoulders, strongly punctate-striate, the stria3 much 

 more closely placed and more irregularly so from the middle down- 

 wards, flavous, the black band broad, placed immediately below the 

 middle, its anterior and posterior margin concave, leaving the apex 

 in shape of a round spot and the anterior portion of the flavous 

 ground colour \ below and the legs black, clothed with grey pubescence. 



Hal. Congo, Boma. 



I received two specimens of this species from M. 



