African Phytophagous Goleoptera. 179 
punctured, black, with a narrow transverse stripe at the middle, 
the lateral margins and the suture posteriorly, fulvous; legs black. 
Length, 4 lines. 
Head closely punctured, fulvous, with a broad transverse black 
band at the vertex ; antennae black, the basal joint fulvous at the 
apex, extending slightly beyond the base of the thorax, the 
latter nearly three times broader than long, the sides straight, the 
anterior angles obliquely truncate, the surface extremely closely 
and finely punctured, rather convex, fulvous, the anterior margin 
with two black spots at the middle of transverse shape, and 
followed by two others placed lower down of transversely oblique 
shape ; scutellum black, impunctate ; elytra punctured like the 
thorax, with a slight semicircular depression below the base, black, 
the lateral margin narrowly, a transverse yet narrower band 
at the middle, and the suture at the posterior half, fulvous ; 
underside and legs entirely black. 
Hah. South Africa. 
The central elytral fulvous band in this species is 
extremely narrow^ and interrupted at the middle. 
Eitryope discicolUs, sp. n. 
Black, the head fulvous with a black transverse band ; thorax 
closely punctured, black, the lateral margins fulvous; eljdira closely 
punctured, black; the shoulders and the lateral margins to the apex, 
fulvous: femora with a red band at the middle. Length, 3-3|^ lines. 
Head closely punctured, a broad medially-widened band at the 
vertex which at the middle sends off a short narrow or broad 
stripe downwards, black ; antennae black, the lower two joints 
fulvous, stained with black above, the five terminal joints strongly 
transversely dilated ; thorax three times broader than long, the 
sides straight, the anterior angles obliquely truncate, the surface 
closely and finely punctured, with an oblique groove at each side, 
black, the lateral margins fulvous, this colour greatly widened 
towards the base; scutellum black ; elytra punctured like the thorax 
with a transverse depression below the base, the shoulders 
prominent, fulvous as well as the lateral margins from before the 
middle to the apex, where the colouf is slightly widened, and with 
irregularly-notched anterior edge, the rest of the surface black; 
underside and legs black, the femora at the middle with a red broad 
angular band. 
Hah. Soutli Africa. 
