228 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



Barybwna lurida, Lac. 



Fern. Fulvous, the terminal joints of the antennae black, the head 

 and thorax impunctate, elytra finely and closely punctured, with a 

 round spot at the base and another near the apex black. 



Length 5-6 millini. 



Of this species Lacordaire only knew the male sex. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. Barker I have now received 

 both sexes taken " in copula " at Malvern, Natal, and am 

 enabled to give the above description of the female which, 

 unlike the male, has two black spots on each elytron ; the 

 thorax is also shorter, more transversely shaped, and the 

 sides are more strongly narrowed anteriorly ; the anterior 

 legs are as usual much shorter, and the femora much less 

 thickened ; the head like that of the male may either be 

 black or fulvous as well as the legs. There are several 

 other smaller species of different genera of Clythridte of 

 similar coloration found in Africa, but the present one 

 remains distinct on account of the slender antennas, the 

 shape of the thorax and the short tarsi. 



Gamptolenes brevitarsis, sp. n. 



Black, the head, thorax and the under side finely pubescent, thorax 

 scarcely punctured, the anterior and lateral margins fulvous, elytra 

 opaque, finely and closely punctured, fulvous, a spot on the shoulders, 

 another before the middle near the suture and a transverse band 

 below the middle black. 



Var. Elytra without any spots. 



Mas. Mandibles large and robust, curved at the apex, the anterior 

 legs moderately elongate, the tarsi short and subtriangular. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head broad, clothed with fine yellow pubescence, the epistome 

 depressed, its apex truncate, pubescent, labrum fulvous, mandibles 

 deeply sulcate and pointed, the eyes emarginate, the sides below 

 subquadrately produced, antennae not extending to the base of the 

 thorax, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the fourth joint 

 elongate, triangularly widened, the following strongly transversely 

 serrate, thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, with a 

 narrow margin, the posterior margin straight at the sides, strongly 

 produced at the middle, the surface sparingly impressed with a few 

 minute punctures, black at the basal portion and finely pubescent, 

 the anterior part smooth, shining and fulvous, this colour extending 

 to the sides, broadly anteriorly, narrow near the base, scutellum 



