African Phytophagous Coleoptera. 323 
South Africa, without particular locality (from the 
Cape Town Museum). 
The entirely unspotted elytra and nearly impunctate 
thorax separates this species from any of its allies; 
there is also an entire absence of an angle at the sides 
of the thorax which is often visible in other species. 
Two specimens are before me which agree in every 
particular. 
Blepharida partita, sp. n. 
Obscurely fulvous, terminal joints of the antennae black ; thorax 
with yellow spots at sides and middle; elytra black, with numerous 
flavous round spots divided longitudinally by a subsutural and 
submarginal smooth flavous stripe. Length, 4 lines. 
Head fulvous, clothed with very short yellow pubescence, 
opaque, labrum flavous, the palpi slender; antennae extending to 
the base of the elytra, fulvous, the last four or five joints black at 
the apex, slightly shorter than the preceding joints ; thorax more 
than twice as broad as long, the lateral margins slightly rounded 
at the middle, the angles, especially the posterior ones, acutely 
produced, the surface with a deep semicircular groove anteriorly 
sending off an obliquely shaped groove at each side towards the 
middle, the sides deeply and closely punctured, the disc with rows 
of finer punctures, dark fulvous with four longitudinal rows of 
yellow spots at the sides and middle, placed rather irregularly ; 
three other spots are situated within the semicircular groove and a 
single one is placed between the inner rows of punctures an- 
teriorly ; scutellum. fulvous ; elytra deeply punctate-striate, black, 
with two rows of round flavous spots placed on the first and 
second interstices, the third one flavous, without spots, followed by 
four other rows of spots, a broader unspotted interstice, and 
another row of spots near the lateral margin, the latter itself as 
well as the elytral epipleurse fulvous, with some small spots at the 
extreme outer edge ; underside and legs dark fulvous, clothed 
with very short silvery pubescence. 
Hah. Zambezi River; Cape Town collection, and in 
my own. 
There will not be much difficulty in recognizing this 
well-marked species, which has the elytral spots 
separated by two narrow, smooth, longitudinal, somewhat 
raised stripes from the base to the apex, which join 
near the apex; the outer one of them is double the 
width of the subsutural one, and has a row of deep 
punctures. 
