African Phytophagous Coleoptera. 
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Lema foveipennis, sp. n. 
Broad and robust, black ; thorax bif oveolate, punctured at sides 
and middle ; elytra purplish-violaceous, deeply and closely f oveo- 
late punctate-striate, the interstices convex at the apex. Length, 
4 lines. 
Head black, sparingly clothed with very short white pubescence, 
the vertex with a deep longitudinal short fovea, bituberculate at 
the sides, eyes very deeply angularly notched, clypeus bluish, 
punctured ; antennse short, black, third and fourth joints equal, 
the following transversely subquadrate ; thorax slightly broader 
than long, the anterior angles tuberculate ; the sides moderately 
constricted at the middle ; the basal sulcus deep, plicate at the 
sides ; the surface with a triangular fovea at each side anteriorly, 
strongly punctured at the same place ; the middle of the disc with 
a broad band of fine punctures forniing about six or eight rows, 
black ; scutellum black, its apex rounded ; elytra much broader 
than the thorax, without basal depression, metallic-violaceous or 
purplish, closely and deeply impressed with elongate f oveolate 
punctures, forming ten rows, the punctures towards the apex more 
closely approached and almost confluent, the interstices at the same 
place costate ; underside and legs black. 
Hah. Mashunaland (Salisbury). 
Of this very large and fine species only a single 
specimen is contained in the Cape Town Museum. 
Black, the upper part of the head and the thorax fulvous, 
strongly punctured and transversely plicate; elytra deeply punctate- 
striate, the interstices costate at the apex, fulvous, the apical 
portion black. Length, 3^ lines. 
Head fulvous, the lower portion black, clothed with short 
pubescence, the space between the eyes raised into two large finely- 
punctured tubercles ; thorax subquadrate, not longer than broad, 
the anterior angles slightly tuberculate, the sides very moderately 
and gradually constricted, the basal sulcus well marked, the surface 
fulvous, with about five rows of deep punctures at the middle of 
the disc, extending as far as the sulcus, their end being marked by 
a fovea, the sides anteriorly strongly transversely plicate, scutellum 
truncate at the apex; elytra with very deep punctures arranged in 
closely approached regular rows, the interstices very sparingly and 
finely punctured about as wide as the punctures, strongly costate 
