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rows of punctures, the interstices slightly rugose, the suture with a 

 broad, posteriorly widened band which is nearly connected at the 

 apex with another marginal black short band which extends slightly 

 further down than the sutural one, the shoulders with another round 

 black spot ; below and the femora black, finely pubescent, the tibiae 

 and tarsi fulvous. 



Hab. Natal, Malvern (C. Barker); Dunbrody {Rev. 



O'Neil). 



Well distinguished from any other species of the genus 

 by the nearly rugosely punctured elytra and their mark- 

 ings ; in the variety a the black bands are united, forming 

 a broad subquadrate patch which does not quite extend 

 to the apex and is angulately narrowed at the base. 



Cryptocephalus mashonamis, sp. n. 



Black, the basal joints of the antennae fulvous, head with a flavous 

 patch, thorax impunctate, black, with three flavous spots, elytra finely 

 punctate-striate, black, a transverse spot at the base, the sides 

 anteriorly, a spot below the middle and another at the apex, 

 flavous. 



Var. Thorax with two spots only, one at each side. 



Length 3 millim. 



Head black, the lower portion finely rugose and opaque, the entire 

 upper part occupied by a large subquadrate flavous patch extending 

 to each eye and minutely punctured, labrum black, antennae short, 

 extending a little beyond the base of the elytra, black, the lower five 

 joints fulvous, the basal joint black above, the terminal six thickened ; 

 thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, 

 obliquely narrowed anteriorly, the posterior angles moderately pro- 

 duced, the surface convex, entirely impunctate, black and very 

 shining, the sides with a semi-crescent flavous spot, the middle 

 with another one, narrow and lozenge-shaped, not extending to 

 either margin, scutellum longer than broad, black, the base with a 

 small fovea ; elytra finely and regularly punctate-striate, rather 

 opaque, with four flavous spots, one at the base near the scutellum, 

 another below the middle near the suture, one at the apex, of trans- 

 verse shape and limited by the narrow black apical margin, and the 

 fourth, of elongate shape at the sides and extending downwards as 

 far as the sutural spot, its inner margin deeply concave at the middle ; 

 below and the legs black, the femora strongly thickened, the proster- 

 num narrowly elongate, its apex truncate. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {G. Marshall). 



