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central black band, elytra remotely punctate-striate, greenish 

 testaceous, narrowly margined with black, the extreme apex yellowish- 

 red. 



Length 5-6 millim . 



Head coarsely punctured and pubescent, black, the vertex divided 

 by a deep central longitudinal groove, the space between the 

 eyes more deeply punctured, epistome separated from the face by a 

 fovea, its anterior edge nearly straight, labrum black, antennae very 

 short, black, the fourth and following joints strongly transverse ; 

 thorax about one half broader than long, the sides not much deflexed, 

 the lateral margins nearly straight, the posterior angles obliquely 

 rounded, the median lobe rather strongly produced, the surface 

 crowded with deep and smaller punctures and clothed with grey 

 pubescence, reddish-fulvous with a broad, medially nearly interrupted 

 black band at the middle (in the female only indicated anteriorly), 

 scutellum rather broad, rugosely punctured and pubescent ; elytra 

 somewhat flattened, the lateral lobes below the shoulders short and 

 distinct at the base only, the punctures black and arranged in 

 distant rows, the punctures themselves likewise distantly placed, the 

 ground colour a pale greenish testaceous, all the margins narrowly 

 black, the basal one ending in a black spot in front of the shoulders, 

 the latter faintly but the apex of each elytron bright yellowish-red, 

 below and the legs black, closely covered with white pubescence, the 

 abdomen closely and strongly punctured. 



Hob. Mashonaland, Salisbury (G. Marshall). 



Of this interesting little species Mr. Marshall has sent 

 an apparently male and female specimen, the latter only 

 differing in being larger and having a broader head and 

 shorter mandibles, the anterior tarsi in the male are also 

 rather more slender ; the species is of entirely different 

 coloration than any other Diapromorpha or Peploptera, and 

 differs further from most in the pubescent thorax, although 

 agreeing in the elytral lobe and uncovered pygidium. 



Peploptera fuhitarsis, Jac. 



This species is identical with P. zambesiana, Pering. 

 (Trans. S. A. Phil. Soc. 1886), as pointed out to me by 

 Mr. Marshall, who compared my species with that of Mr. 

 Peringuey. I unfortunately overlooked this author's paper, 

 so my name for the species cannot stand. 



Peploptera humeralis, Jac. (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897). 

 It is quite possible that this species is identical with 



