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are more closely and strongly punctured than in tlie 
other sex and the spots are fainter, the tibige and tarsi 
are entirely fulvous, and the femora are stained with that 
colour. Another specimen is also contained in the British 
Museum, 
Tituhoea thoracica, sp. n. 
Bluish-black, finely pubescent ; thorax irregularly punctured, the 
anterior margin fulvous ; elytra flavous, opaque, coarsely punc- 
tured, an oblique transverse band before and another below the 
middle, black, tibiae flavous. Length, 4^ lines. 
Mas. Of rather broad and depressed shape, the head elongate, 
the vertex smooth, shining, the lower portion longitudinally strigate 
and finely pubescent, black, the left mandible enlarged, angularly 
curved inwards ; antennae not extending to the base of the thorax, 
the lower three joints fulvous, the others black, strongly trans- 
versely serrate ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides 
slightly rounded as well as the angles, the surface irregularly 
impressed with larger and smaller punctures, the si(Jes with a 
rather deep transverse depression at the middle, the base with 
another more shallow one in front of the scutellum, the anterior 
margin and part of the sides, fulvous, the rest of the surface black, 
median lobe broadly produced ; scutellum broad, with a few punc- 
tures ; elytra flavous, opaque, strongly, rather closely but irregularly 
punctured, with two ill-defined longitudinal costae, and two trans- 
verse black bands, the anterior one of which extends upwards to 
the shoulders (but is sometimes interrupted at the latter place) and 
the posterior one is situated below the middle ; neither of these 
bands extend quite to the lateral margin ; the suture at the apex 
is likewise narrowly edged with black ; underside bluish-black, 
closely pubescent, the tibiae flavous, the anterior tarsi very elongate. 
Kah. South Africa. 
Of this species I have two male and one female 
before me. I can find no published description 
agreeing with the insect, which, although allied to T, 
ruficollis, Oliv., and several others, differs from all in the 
two-banded elytra and the colour and sculpture of the 
thorax ; the female has as usual less developed mandibles, 
and the thorax and elytra are much more closely and 
almost rugosely punctured; the black bands are also 
broader. 
