220 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



Clavareau at Brussels; it belongs to the small-sized in- 

 sects of this genus and is not a very typical form, but the 

 elytra are distinctly although not strongly lobed at the 

 base, the pygidium is not covered by them and the legs 

 are short and stout ; the elytral pattern and the black 

 thorax will easily distinguish the species. 



Diapromorjpha tigrina, sp. n. 



Bluish-black below, densely clothed with silvery pubescence, above 

 flavous, the antennas, tibice and tarsi fulvous, thorax with two broad 

 longitudinal bands, remotely punctured, elytra closely and semi- 

 regularly punctate, flavous, the extreme apex reddish fulvous, each 

 elytron with three transverse black bands. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Head flat, entirely covered with short, grey pubescence, antennae 

 half the length of the thorax, fulvous ; thorax narrowed in front, the 

 sides straight, the surface finely, irregularly and remotely punctured, 

 the flavous portion impunctate, confined to the sides (narrowly at 

 the base, broadly at the anterior angles) and to a thin medial stripe, 

 which divides the black portion nearly to the base, scutellum black, 

 impunctate, its apex truncate, elytra more strongly punctured than 

 the thorax, the punctures semi-regularly arranged in rows, with 

 three oblique black bands, the first placed below the base, the second 

 below the middle and the third near the apex, the latter being 

 reddish fulvous in colour. 



Hah. Luitpoldkette, Oriental Africa (Belgian Mus. 

 and my collection). 



Three or four very nearly similarly marked species are 

 known from Africa of which D. zebra, Lac, and I), tettentis, 

 Gerst., are the more closely allied forms ; the two specimens 

 before me are exactly similar, and seem to me to differ 

 from the following species thus: — In D. zebra the legs are 

 entirely black and the reddish spot at the apex of the 

 elytra is wanting, this is also the case in D. argentata, Fab., 

 and D. tcttensis ; in the latter species the elytra are also 

 much more strongly punctured and the legs are black ; D. 

 hemorrhagica, Gerst., has similar fulvous elytral apex but 

 only two black bands instead of three ; the female of the 

 present insect is larger and has the usual fovea at the last 

 abdominal segment. 



Diapromorpha terminata, sp. n. 

 Black, thorax pubescent, strongly punctured, fulvous with a 



