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tlie vertex, and somewhat rugose, the frontal elevations 
moderately raised, bounded behind by a narrow fulvous 
streak ; antennae short, black, with strongly- widened 
and transversely-shaped apical joints ; thorax sKghtly 
longer than broad, not deeply constricted at the sides, 
without tubercles at the angles, the basal sulcation 
obsolete, with a deeper fovea at the middle, the surface 
shghtly bronze-coloured, closely pubescent, deeply and 
closely punctured, the punctures irregularly distributed, 
and equally strong behind the sulcus ; elytra pubescent 
like the thorax, metallic-violaceous, with closely ap- 
proached rows of deep punctures, which diminish in size 
posteriorly; the interstices also very finely punctured 
or rugose. 
Hob, Mashunaland (Salisbury) ; a single specimen, 
Cape Town Museum. 
Lema nigropicta, sp. n. 
Broad, flavous ; the antennae (the basal joint excepted), the 
knees, tibiae, and tarsi, black ; thorax with two black spots 
anteriorly ; elytra deeply and closely punctate-striate, the inter- 
stices minutely punctured, a spot on the shoulder, and another 
near the middle of each, black ; femora flavous, the base black. 
Length, 3 lines. 
Head deeply constricted behind, with two rounded, rather 
obsolete tubercles between the eyes, impunctate > the latter tri- 
angularly notched, very prominent, surrounded by a deeply- 
punctured space bounded by deep grooves ; clypeus impunctate ; 
antennae slender, but scarcely extending to the middle of the 
elytra, black, the first joint flavous, almost subquadrately thickened ; 
thorax broader than long, subquadrate, moderately constricted at 
the sides ; the basal sulcus placed immediately below the middle ; 
the space below it also narrowly sulcate or plicate ; the surface 
with several rows of distinct punctures at the middle of the disc ; 
the rest also very finely punctured and slightly wrinkled, with a 
black spot plaiced on the anterior angles ; scutellum rather concave, 
short ; elytra deeply and closely f oveolate punctate-striate ; the 
interstices costate at the apex, also sparingly and finely punctured ; 
a spot on the humeral callus and a small round spot near the 
suture before the middle, black ; femora and underside flavous, 
the extreme base of the former, the knees, tibiae, and tarsi, black. 
Cape Town Museum ; a single specimen. 
Easily distinguished by its coloration. 
