African Phytophagous Coleoptera. 339 
Of elongate parallel shape, the head broad, strongly rugose, the 
frontal elevations transverse, smooth and shining, rest of the head 
finely pubescent ; antennas extending to the middle of the elytra, 
black, the terminal joints gradually and slightly widened, the third 
joint shorter than the fourth but one-half longer than the second 
joint ; thorax short, narrower at the base than at the apex, the 
angles with a small ring-shaped tubercle containing a single hair, 
the rest of the surface strongly rugose and sparingly pubescent, 
anterior margin straight, posterior margin slightly sinuate at the 
middle ; scutellum broad, black, pubescent ; elytra opaque vio- 
laceous, clothed with thin greyish pubescence, finely rugosely 
punctured throughout, the apex of each elytron rounded, their 
epipleurse very narrow ; underside and apex black, the last 
abdominal segment flavous, tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the 
posterior tarsi as long as the three following joints, claws bifid, 
anterior coxal cavities closed. 
Hah. Africa, Sierra Leone. 
In this species, the first known from Africa, the 
structural characters of Buphonida are all present, but 
the thorax is not quite so short or so transversely sulcate 
as is the case in the typical forms from India ; neverthe- 
less, I tliink the species may well be included in tlie 
genus, the broad head especially suggesting this as its 
proper place. The female is considerably larger and 
broader than the male insect. 
Gynorta (?) modestaj sp. n. 
Obscurely testaceous, antennae (the basal joints excepted), the 
breast and the apex of the tibiae, as well as the tarsi, black ; thorax 
subquadrate without depression, elytra minutely punctured, with 
traces of longitudinal sulci ( $ ). Length, 3-3^ lines. 
Head broad, impunctate, slightly fulvous, the frontal tubercles 
transverse, strongly raised, clypeus triangular, acutely raised, palpi 
long and slender ; antennae nearly as long as the body, black, the 
lower three joints and the extreme base of the following ones 
flavous, third joint much shorter than the fourth • thorax scarcely 
broader than long, all the margins nearly straight, all the angles 
acute, the surface without depressions, very sparingly and scarcely 
perceptibly punctured ; scutellum with its apex nearly truncate ; 
elytra parallel, not depressed below the base, testaceous, very finely 
and closely punctured ; underside and legs flavous, the breast, the 
extreme apex of the tibiae and the tarsi blackish, tibiae with a 
