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LIST OF THE ANTEBIBIDAE IN THE CONGO MUSEUM 



AT TERVUEREN. 



By Dr. K. JORDAN. 



THE specimens eiiiuuerated came i'rom the Belgian Congo. The types of the 

 few new forms are in the Mnsee du Congo BeJge, if not stated otherwise. 

 Besides the species mentioned below there are about a dozen additional forms 

 in the collection represented by single specimens. These are mostly undescribed, 

 but for various reasons I consider it for the present inopportnne to publish 

 descriptions of them. Moreover, a number of species have been added to the 

 collection from our own material, so that the Congo Museum now contains the 

 greater proportion of the Antkribidae known from the Congo basin. 



1. Mecocerus mniszechi Thoms. (1858). 



The commonest species in the Congo region. A series of specimens in the 

 collection from : Lukombe (A. Koller) ; Leo-Stanleyville (Weyns) ; Kisantu 

 (R. P. Goossens) ; Kasai (Coart) ; Kabambare (Delhaise) ; Manyema ('Dupuis) ; 

 Leopoldville ; Galli-Koko, Kasai (R. Cauliev) ; Uele (Leret) ; Sassa (Colmant). 



2. Mecocerus rhombeus Qued. (1886). 



This conspicuously marked species {i.e. conspicuous in a collection) is repre- 

 sented by a series from: Sassa (Colmant); Mayumbe (Deleval) ; Lukombe (A. 

 Koller); Lukenge, Kasai (Fontainas) ; Dinia (A. Koller); Katanga (Lemaire); 

 Ldopoldville. 



3. Mecocerus oculatus Jord. (1895). 



3 <?c?, 2 ? ? ; Sassa (Colmant). 



The species is much rarer in collections than the previous ones. 



4. Phloiophilus sulcifrons Fahrs. (1839). 



Tlie sexes are very similar; but the S S are easily recognised by bearing, 

 anteriorly on the metasteruum, a ronnd median impression which is filled in with 

 short hair, and by the midtibia being armed with a tooth at the apex. 



2 <Jc?, 3 ? ? ; Sassa (Colmant). 



2 c?(? ; Lukombe (A. Koller). 



1 S ; Galli-Kokor, Kasai (R. Carlier). 



5. Apatenia annulipes Jord. (1894). 



1 (?, 1 ? ; Sassa (Colmant). 



These are the only specimens I have seen beside the type. 



6. Chirotenon adustum Labr. and Imh. (1842). 



A series from : Sassa (CJolmaut) ; Lukombe (A. Koller) ; Galli-Koko, Kasai 

 (R. Carlier) ; Lukenge, Kasai (Cabra). 



