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equal ; thorax transverse, the sides obliquely and angularly widened 
before the middle, the anterior angles rounded and obsolete, the 
base with a narrow transverse sulcus, the flanks and underside 
black, the surface yellow with a small fovea at each side 
anteriorly, a row of deep punctures parallel with the anterior 
margin and some other punctures arranged in an almost circular 
shape at the sides ; elytra closely and deeply punctate-striate, 
greenish-yellow, with a sutural posteriorly slightly narrowed black 
stripe extending to the apex ; interstices very minutely punctured ; 
the breast, the base of the femora, and the tarsi black ; abdomen 
yellow, with a black spot at each side. 
Hah, Natal, Cape Town Museum, and my collection. 
The claws of tlie two specimens before me are 
unfortunately all broken off, but I have little doubt that 
it is a Grioceris, somewbat allied to G. halyi, Har. ; the 
shape of the thorax is, however, totally different from 
that of any other species with which I am acquainted 
and will at once distinguish the present insect. 
MEGALOPIN^. 
Poecilomorpha divisa, sp. n. 
Fulvous, the antennae and legs black ; head and thorax piceous, 
pubescent, scarcely punctured ; elytra finely and remotely 
punctured, piceous ; the posterior portion reddish-fulvous. Length, 
i\ lines. 
Head fulvous, the central portion blackish, with a narrow 
transverse ridge between the eyes, sparingly clothed with black 
pubescence and impressed with a few fine punctures here and there, 
clypeus and mandibles stained with black ; antennse not extending 
beyond the base of the thorax, black, the lower four joints shining, 
the others opaque, transversely widened ; thorax strongly trans- 
verse, the sides rather rounded, the anterior angles obsolete, the 
posterior ones scarcely distinct, rather oblique, the surface not 
perceptibly punctured, piceous, sparingly clothed with black 
hairs ; the disc with the usual anterior and posterior narrow sulci, 
the latter one of fulvous colour ; elytra rather broad and flattened, 
finely and remotely punctured, each puncture furnished with a black 
hair, the anterior portion to beyond the middle, piceous, the rest 
fulvous ; underside of the same colour ; the sides of the breast and 
the legs black. 
Hah. Delagoa, Cape Town Museum. 
Of this distinctly marked species, only a single female 
specimen is before me. 
