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manner. The Oriental types jirevail as regards the relations between the West 

 African Subregion and the Oriental Region, while the " Eastern Afro-Indian " and 

 E. S. African genera together are predominant in the affinities of E. S. Africa to 

 tile Oriental Region. 



PRIOXINI. 



1. Parandra gabonica Thorns. {AirL cut. ii., p. 140) — (omitted in the Munich 



Catalogue). 

 Kniln. 



2. Cacoscelis oedipus Newm. 

 Magalies Bcrge (Transvanl i. HivorsJale (Cape Colony). 



Transvaal. 

 Sierra Leone. 



:i. Cacoscelis lacordairei Pasc. 



4. Tithoes yolofos (Dalm.). 



o. Tithoes frontalis Har. 



Upper Congo. 



There is one specimen from Sierra Leone in the Mnsenm's collection, which I 

 refer with some doubt to this species ; its eyes are a little smaller and the 

 mandibles much longer than in the examples from the Upper Congo. 



6. Dorycera spinicornis (Fabr.). 

 Bathnrst (W. Afr.), Axim (W. Afr.), Kuilu. 



T. Macrotoma palmata (Fabr.). 

 Senegal. 



s. Macrotoma prionopus AMiitc. 

 Sierra Leone, Kuilu. 



9. Macrotoma infans Qned. 

 Kniln. 



1'). Macrotoma viridesceus sp. uov. 



?. .1/. nigro-picea, snbnitidii, olytris inter costas hand nitidis et couspicue 

 viridescentibns : prothorace lateribus breviter spinosis, disco [wstice laevi ; scutello 

 apice eniarginato, panels pnnctis instructo ; elytris antice fortiter, dein usque ad 

 apicem minutissime deusiter granulatis, disco qnatuor costis brunneis fortiter 

 elevatis, ad costarnm latera serie irregulare punctis grossis. 



Long, ol mm., elytr. 37, lat. 15. 



Pitch black, shining, wirli the antennae (except their scape) and the costae 

 of the elytra brown ; the space between these costae not shining, with a distinct 

 tint of a sage green colour. Head strongly punctured ; a deej) groove between the 

 eyes punctnlated only near the margin of tlie latter ; the antemiary tubers with a 

 coarse jjunctnation. Scape of tlie antennae short, somewhat thickened towards tlie 

 tij), coarsely and rather densely punctuated, and with a tubercle behind the middle. 

 Protliorax convex, with the sides strongly declivous, the angles not recurved, the 

 marginal teeth acute but very short, the j)osterior the longest : the disc longitudi- 

 nally and in front transversely im]iressed, nearly without punctures behind ; sides 

 of the prothorax very coarsely ]nuictuated, with the punctures (■ontluent. Scutellum 



