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Ceclus Pasc. (1860) in shape, its npperside nneven, with three ill-defined carinae 

 and another at each side from the upper edge of the antennal groove in the 

 direction of the eye, the median one forming a hnmp in lateral aspect, none distinct 

 in apical half; the whole rostrum and the genae very densely covered with 

 a yellowish grey pubescence ; below eye a widely-open slit, not a mere sntnre. 

 Frons narrowed, about as wide as the interspace between the median and the 

 next carina of the rostrum, witli distinct median groove and posteriorly puactnred. 

 Eye long, prominent, with a narrow, interrupted, yellowish grey, dorsal border. 



Antenna slender, pale rnfous, extending beyond base of prothorax, segments 

 3 to with a distinct black ring close to apex, club distinct but not compact, black, 

 segment 9 as lung as 8, and nearly thrice as long as broad, one-third longer than 10, 

 3 one-third longer than 4, 2 thinner than 1 and about half its length. 



Pronotiim very coarsely punctnred, transversely dei}ressed before middle, with 

 the following bright clay markings: a median stripe, commencing near apex with a dot, 

 behind which the stripe is a very thin line, widening again behind the depression, 

 then being constricted, and finally widening at the carina, being widest behind the 

 latter ; on each side of disc four small dots, one being placed at the dejiression, three 

 in a longitndinal row further laterally from apex to base, and the fifth above the 

 apex of the lateral carina. The carina sharply angnlate in centre, rounded at 

 the sides ; basal lateral carina feebly developed. 



Elytra coarsely punctate-striate, the punctures being large, the interspaces 

 more or less convex, esjiecially the third, basal callosity prominent, the suture and 

 a number of markings bright clay-colonr, namely : along the sntnre and connected 

 with the sutural strijie a basal spot covering the callosity, a small spot before the 

 middle, a large, transverse, band-like spot behind the middle immediately followed 

 by a smaller spot, and an apical jiatch, between third interspace and outer margin 

 about ten spots of unequal size, most of them situated in interspace 9 ; the black 

 portions of the elytra with a minute greyish silky pubescence, excepting part of 

 interspaces 3, 5 and 7 and the edges of the larger clay spots which are deep black, 

 a black ring on the basal callosity, open anteriorly. Pygidium narrowing gradually, 

 with rounded apex and a small clayish spot on each side at the base. 



Underside densely pubescent clayish grey, sides of metasternite and abdomen 

 spotted with blackish brown ; pro- and mesosternum and sides of metasternnm and 

 abdomen coarsely jninctured. Legs luteous (like the places of the upperside covered 

 with a clay pubescence), base and apex of femora, base, centre, and apex of tibiae, 

 and apex of first tarsal segment brownish black, claw-segment brown. 



Length (exclusive of head) : 5' mm. 



One cJ from Assinie, West Africa (Ch. Alluaud, 1880). 



21. Litocerus callias sjiec. no v. 



(?. Blackish brown ; above ochraceons, brown and huffish grey, beneath grey, 

 legs ochraceous for the greater part. 



Rostrum almost gradually widened towards apex, half as long again as it is 

 broad near the base, slightly porrect, with the upperside ap|iearing curved in lateral 

 aspect, three dorsal carinae, well defined from base to near centre, then widened and 

 more or less efiaced, remaining vestigial to the apex, a low carina from eye to 

 antennal groove; genal slit present. Head like the rostrum entirely pubescent- 

 ochraceous ; frons about two-thirds the width of an interspace between the dorsal 



