African PhytophagoiLs Goleoptera, 1 73 
basal margin, a posterior gradually-widened sutural narrow band, a 
broader lateral stripe not extending to the apex, the extreme 
margin of the latter and the posterior half of the lateral margin, 
black ; abdomen and legs flavous ; the breast black. 
Hab. Natalj Cape Town Museum ; a single specimen. 
Somewhat resembles C. W-nigrum, Suff., from W. 
Africa, but with differently- col cured and sculptured 
thorax, etc. 
Cryptocephalus latipennis, sp. n. 
Blackish-blue, the head with one, the thorax with three yellow 
spots, impunctate ; elytra broad and short, punctate-striate on the 
disc, irregularly punctured at the sides, the lateral margin an- 
teriorly and a spot at the apex, bright flavous. Length, 1|- 
lines. 
Of short and robust shape, of a bluish-black colour, the head 
with a short central groove, very finely and sparingly punctured, 
the space between the eyes with a transverse bright flavous spot, 
clypeus more closely and deeply punctured; antennae only extending 
to the base of the thorax, the lower four joints more or less flavous 
below, the others black, the third joint one-half longer than the 
second, but shorter than the fourth joint ; thorax much widened 
at the middle, very convex, the sides rounded, the surface not 
perceptibly punctured, shining bluish-black, a somewhat pear- 
shaped spot at the sides, and a narrow posteriorly-pointed trans- 
verse band at the middle of the anterior margin, flavous ; scutellum 
broad, its apex truncate, impunctate ; elytra not more than twice 
as long as broad, not depressed at the base, the punctuation 
arranged in two or three rows near the suture, but distinct only at 
the posterior portion, the rest of the surface irregularly and 
strongly punctured, the interstices at the sides more or less trans- 
versely wrinkled and aciculate ; below the shoulder at the lateral 
margin is an elongate posteriorly narrow short bright yellow 
spot, and a transverse spot is placed at the apex of each elytron ; 
the epipleur^ anteriorly are likewise flavous. 
Africa, Eondeburg (?), Cape Town Museum, Coll. 
Jacoby. 
In coloration this species is allied to C. mefallescenSj 
Suff. It differs in the short and broad general shape, 
and in the sculpture of the elytra, from that and a few 
other nearly similarly-coloured African species. 
