238 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



(the basal ones united in pairs), elytra strongly punctate-striate, 

 two spots below the base, one near the apex and an anterior and 

 posterior spot at the suture, black, below black, legs fulvous, spotted 

 with black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head rather closely punctured, flavous, the extreme vertex black, 

 the base of the antennas with another black spot, labrum and palpi 

 fulvous, antennas long and slender, black, the lower five joints flavous, 

 the fifth joint much longer than the third or fourth, the terminal 

 two joints thinner and more elongate than the intermediate ones ; 

 thorax strongly narrowed anteriorly, the sides feebly rounded, the 

 surface entirely impunctate, flavous, all the margins narrowly black, 

 the base at each side with a transverse band in shape of two connected 

 spots, the anterior portion with another slightly oblique black spot 

 at each side, scutellum black, its apex rounded ; elytra regularly 

 and rather strongly punctate-striate, flavous, the extreme basal, 

 sutural and apical margins black, the suture with two black spots, 

 one near the middle, the other near the apex, each elytron with three 

 other spots, one at the shoulder of rather elongate shape, one near the 

 scutellum and the third at the sides, placed slightly higher than the 

 posterior sutural spot ; below black, the prosternum, mesosternum, 

 the breast near the middle and the first abdominal segment flavous, 

 legs fulvous, prosternum produced into an acute point at the posterior 

 angles. 



Hob. Mashonaland, Salisbury, Lepasi River (G. 

 Marshall). 



The number of the spots and their position on the 

 elytra separate this species from any other African Crypto- 

 cephalus known at present, and of which I have seen two 

 specimens. 



Cryptoccphalus jprtetoriensis, sp. n. 



Below pale fulvous, above flavous, the vertex of the head black, 

 thorax with a transverse black band including three flavous spots, 

 elytra strongly punctate-striate, black, a transverse sinuate band at 

 the base, a spot on the shoulders, two others placed transversely below 

 the middle and a spot at the apex, flavous, legs with black stripes. 



Length 4^ millim. 



Head strongly but not closely punctured, flavous, the vertex and 

 a spot at the base of the antennas black, the former with a longitudi- 

 nal depression, eyes large, broadly emarginate, clypeus thickened, 

 flavous, labrum and palpi fulvous, antennas extending to about the 



