270 Mr. A. White on some apparently unrecorded 



Nyphona asperata, n. s. 

 Lamia asperata, Burchell, MSS. 



N. obscure grisea; thorace medio subsulcato ; elytris fasciculis 

 plurimis par vis lineatim ordinatis ; corpore subtus cinerascente. 



Of a dull griseous ; thorax with two distant tubercles on each 

 side ; they are greyish above ; the middle of the thorax is irre- 

 gular, and down the middle is a slight longitudinal groove j the 

 elytra are punctured, and have many small tufts of brown hairs 

 arranged in interrupted lines ; the under surface is paler than 

 the upper part, and is of a cinereous colour; the antenna? are of 

 a dirty brown, minutely speckled with greyish dots. 



Length 9£ lines. 



Hab. S. Africa (Dr. Burchell). 



Phryneta buphthalmus, n. s. 



P. thorace supra quadri-tuberculato ; elytris vage villosis, fusco- 

 ochraceis, plagis variis fuscis, apice rubris ; antennarum articulo 

 basali rubro, articulis cseteris nigro-fuscis, articulis secundo ad 

 quintum postice ciliatis ; abdomine subtus miniaceo-rubro, medio 

 nigro-plagiato, latere nigro-maculato. 



Eyes very large ; head covered with vermilion-red pile ; an- 

 tennse with the basal joint covered with short vermilion-coloured 

 down, the joints from the seconi to the fifth behind ciliated ; 

 thorax above with four depressed tubercles, two above each spine ; 

 elytra with long scattered black villous hairs, ochreous-brown, 

 with large patches of brown ; across the middle these constitute a 

 nearly continuous band; the apex is vermilion-red; the shoulder 

 and the sides of the elytra at the base punctured ; tibiae brown ; 

 femora covered with vermilion-coloured pubescence ; a pointed 

 tubercle between the fore-legs ; under side of abdomen vermi- 

 lion ; each joint in the middle at the base with a large black 

 mark, the side with a smaller black spot. 



Length 11-12^ lines. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



This species, in markings and general appearance, has a con- 

 siderable resemblance, at first sight, to the Lamia molator, Fabr. 

 I am not certain that my description of this curious insect has 

 not been anticipated by Mr. Thomson, in a number of the ' Ar- 

 chives ' which I have not seen, as he once pointed it out to me 

 as an insect he was about to publish. I described it some years 

 ago. Perhaps this ought to be referred to a new genus ; but as 

 Mr. Thomson may have formed a name for its reception, I ab- 

 stain from describing it as such. Mr. Thomson's descriptions 

 seem sometimes to be drawn from very imperfect specimens; 

 and this species may be distinct from his. 



