222 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



P. dbyssinica, Lefev. (Revue et Mag. Zool. 1877), but the 

 author described the species from a female specimen and 

 gives the colour of the tarsi as rufous, while they are 

 black in P. humeralis. I have also received a specimen 

 from Mashonaland from Mr. Marshall which I must refer 

 to this species, as it agrees in nearly everything and in the 

 shape of the penis ; this latter is of robust shape, widened 

 at the apex, the opening of the latter large, its lower edge 

 produced into a point and furnished with long bristle-like 

 hairs, the upper margin of the cavity triangularly produced, 

 truncate at the middle. 



Peploptera curvilinc-a, sp. n. 



Black, the basal joints of the antennae and the apex of the tibite 

 more or less fulvous, thorax reddish-fulvous with a broad central 

 black band, finely and sparingly punctured, elytra flavous, strongly 

 and regularly punctate-striate, a sutural, medially constricted band 

 and another at the lateral margin, curved inwards at the apex, black. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head black, shining, the vertex swollen, the space between the 

 eyes strongly rugose-punctate, separated from the vertex by a depres- 

 sion, eyes elongate, slightly notched, palpi black, their basal joint 

 fulvous, antennae black, the lower three joints fulvous, thorax twice 

 as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides nearly straight, the 

 median lobe slight, the surface very sparingly and minutely punctured, 

 reddish-fulvous, with a broad, posteriorly strongly widened black 

 central band, the disc with a distinct transverse short groove near the 

 base at each side, scutellum black, triangular ; elytra with regular and 

 deep rows of punctures, flavous, the posterior portion narrowly 

 margined with black, the sutural band widened posteriorly and not 

 extending to the base or apex, the lateral ones widened at the 

 shoulders, often in shape of an elongate spot, its apex curved towards 

 the suture, nearly touching the sutural band, below clothed with 

 silvery pubescence. 



Hah. Natal, Malvern (C. Barker). 



Again closely allied to P. dorsata and P. trilineata, 

 Lac, but differing in the single broad central band of the 

 thorax, the distinct lateral groove of the latter, the shape 

 of the sutural and lateral bands of the elytra and the 

 partly fulvous tibiae; nine specimens received from Mr. 

 Barker all exactly agree in this respect, the sexes were 

 taken " in coitu "; the penis is short and broad, the upper 



