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as long, the lateral margins slightly rounded at the middle, anterior 
angles obliquely thickened, the basal sulcus not extending quite to 
the sides, the surface extremely finely and closely punctured 
throughout, reddish-cupreous with brassy reflection ; scutellum dark 
blue, broad; elytra convex, more strongly punctured than the 
thorax, the apex somewhat pointed, the extreme sutural and lateral 
margins greenish; underside and legs nearly black, the sides of 
the breast and the femora more or less metallic-cupreous or bluish, 
clothed with grey pubescence. 
Hah. Mashunaland, Salisbury, also West Africa 
(coll. Jacoby). 
Distinguished from most of its allies by the entirely 
cupreous colour of the upper surface. 
Haltica cyanicollis, sp. n. 
Metallic-blue ; thorax scarcely perceptibly punctured ; elytra 
cupreous, finely and closely punctured, the interstices finely granu- 
late. Length, 2| lines. 
Head metallic-blue, the vertex with some deep strigte at each 
side, the space near the eyes punctured, frontal elevations broadly 
trigonate, carina acute, labrum and palpi black ; antennce extending 
to the middle of the elytra, bluish-black, third joint smaller than 
the fourth ; thorax twice as broad as long, bright metallic-blue, the 
lateral margins straight, anterior angles oblique, the basal sulcus 
distinct, scarcely extending to the margins, the surface micros- 
copically punctured with an obsolete short transverse de- 
pression at each side anteriorly ; scutellum bluish ; elytra 
extremely closely and finely but more distinctly punctured than 
the thorax, reddish-cupreous ; underside and legs metallic-blue, 
clothed with whitish pubescence. 
Hah. Natal, Newcastle. 
Larger than H. cufveaj and differently coloured. 
8phseroderma discoidalis, sp. n. 
Fulvous, the apical joints of the antennae and the legs piceous 
or black ; thorax finely punctured, the disc piceous ; elytra very 
closely punctate-striate, the disc, in shape of a broad band, piceous. 
Length, 1| line. 
Var. Thorax and elytra entirely fulvous. 
Head impunctate, obliquely grooved between the eyes, frontal 
tubercles flat, carina also flattened ; antennae short, the lower four 
joints fulvous, the rest black, the first joint elongate, the second 
