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Head greenish lilne ; epistome with line sparse punctures ; cheeks aud vertex 

 behind the eyes strougly punctured ; iVoul sparingly and feebly transversely 

 wrinkled close to the epistome, longitudinally plicate in the middle, and almost 

 smooth near the eyes ; nnderneatli the eyes are some strong wrinkles. Antennae 

 black, bluish at the base ; scape strongly pnnctulated au<l rugose, with a deep 

 notch at the base. Sides of the ]irothorax rounded behind the middle, dilated into 

 a short tubercle ; the transverse wrinkling of the prothorax irregular, some of the 

 wrinkles interrupted here and there, all of them interrupted in the middle of the disc; 

 some of the posterior ones curved at the central line, and running along towards the 

 front : a space at the anterior margin, and a second at the base nearly smooth. 

 Scutellnm bluish green, anil impmictate. Elytra sparsely punctured in the middle 

 of the base, densely punctuated at the apex, the remainder jrauctulated and densely 

 transversely rngulose ; a long and nari-ow sntural area, broadest in front and 

 occupying the second and third ipiarter of tlie suture, is green, with a tint of golden. 

 Under surface bluish green, clothed wirh a fine greyish white pubescence. Legs 

 blue; femora densely rugose, rather slightly clavate, at least less thickened near the 

 apex than in other species of Cloniopkoriis. 



Rah. Congo (Stanley Pool). 



96. (?) Cloniophorus parva sp. uov. 



?. (jl. nigro-caeruleus ; prothorace aurato ; idytris viridescentibus : fronte 

 strigulosa, vortiee medio laevi ; scapo rugoso-punctato, dentato ; prothorace elougato, 

 fortiter ileutato, transverse ])licato, spatio laterali ante tulierculum et disci medio 

 (ab margine antico uscjne ad basim) laevi; scutello laevi; elytris multis striis minutis 

 transversis et pnnctis circularibus sat niagnis ad basim sparsatiin dein dense instructa, 

 apicibus obsolete rugulosis. Infra griseo-pubescens, dense jninctatus ; femorilms 

 grosse punctatis, tibiis intermediis carinatis. 



Long. 14 mm., elytr. 9, lat. :!. 



Head violet blue, slightly shining; front lon,t;itudinaHy striate, vertex with large 

 circular and slightly impressed punctures, hut impunctate between the upper lobes 

 of the eyes. Antennae dark blue; scape very coarsely punctuated, and produced into a 

 tooth at the apex. Prothorax golden, somewhat brassy, sliining, longer than broad, 

 feebly liiconstricted, strongly toothed at the sides, and with a rather obsolete fold 

 in front of the lateral tooth ; the wrinkling quite irregular at the sides, somewhat 

 more regularly transverse on the disc ; a rather large space at the front margin, 

 the whole of the middle of the disc and the sides in front of and behind the lateral 

 tubercle smooth : basal constriction with two or three wrinkles. Scutellum bluish 

 green, impunctate, rounded, and depressed. Elytra also bluish green, with the 

 sides and apes blue. The elytra have a peculiar sculpture : they are transversely 

 and rugosely striate ; the striae, connected with each other, are sparse at the base, 

 dense in the middle, and obsolete at the apex ; moreover, there are many large 

 circular and rather deejjly impressed punctures, which become more aud more 

 obsolete towards the rugulose apex. Base of the elytra rather shining. Body 

 beneath dark blue, clothed with a thin grey pubescence. Sixth segment of the 

 abdomen of the inah small and rounded, the fifth slightly emars'inate. 



Hub. Kuilu (A. Mocquerys, 1892). 



Reminds one of Proniecen. The femora are much more slender than in the 

 other species of Cloniopliorus, so that I have doubt if this species would not be 

 better made the type of a new genus. 



