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Golden Erroen, head and prothorax sliininj;'. Head black, tingoil with violet ; 

 median snlcns stronsly and abrnjitly abbreviated anteriorly and on the vertex ; 

 front golden, wit it a tint of igneous, especially ou the antennary tubers, acutely 

 carinate at each side and finely and sparingly jiuuctured; vertex all but impunctate; 

 throat igneous, and densely plicate like the cheeks. Antennae black, tinged \vith 

 violet ; scape narrowed at the base, coarsely rngose, and half as long as the third 

 joint. Prothorax golden green, as long as broad, rather feebly bicoustricted ; sides 

 with a blunt tooth-like tabercle and with a fold before the middle ; pnnctnation 

 extremely s]iarse ; disc more convex posteriorly than in front, with a large, fiery 

 violet patch at the front margin, not ([uite extending to tlie middle of the disc and 

 ronnded posteriorly. Scntellum golden green, shining, impunctate. Elytra dark 

 green, clothed with a very short and thin black pubescence, which is wanting at 

 the snture and on the middle of the disc ; finely I'ugate-puuctulate, the rugosities 

 coarser near the scntellum. Under snrface covered with a silvery grey pubescence. 

 Prosternnm rugosely plicate ; metasternnm and sides of the abdomen densely 

 puuctnlated, sparsely so in the middle of the latter. Femora greenish blue, four 

 anterior ones with sparse, hind ones with denser punctures, the latter finely spincd 

 nuderueath ; tibiae and tarsi nearly l>lack. 



Hrib. Bopoto (Upper Congo). Two specimens, one almost twice as large as the 

 other ; the Tueasnres of the first are given above. 



Hospes gen. nov. Type : //. nifu/zfollis sp. nov. 



Head without transverse impressed line behind the epistorae : front somewhat 

 elongate ; antennae thickened towards the apex, as long as the body or a little 

 longer ; scape toothed at the apex ; third joint longer than the fourth ; front margin 

 of the prothorax rounded above, sides with a distinct tubercle ; elytra commonly 

 ronnded at tlie apex : anterior coxal cavities closi'd behind : all leuiora clavate ; 

 four anti'rior tibiae with a short or long carina. 



To be jilaced after E.rimiti. 



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1~". Hospes nitidicollis s]i. nov. 

 (PI. IX., fig. 1:^.) 



(J. If. viridis, j)aruni auratus ; antcnnis pedibusipie nigris ; tibiis quatuor 

 anticis paulo ])iccis. Caput nitidnm, siugulatim pnuctatum, sulco medio antice 

 leviter abbreviato. Scapus aiitennarnm fortiter rngulosus. Prothorax latitudine 

 longior, singulis jmnctis instructus, nitidus, autice paulo, postice fortiter constrictus, 

 dente laterali tuniido. Scntellum breve, rotundato-triaugnlare, nitidnm, pauce 

 jiuuctatum. Elytra subtilissirae rugoso-jiunctata, sntura nitida, lateraliter parum 

 cyanescentia. Subtus argenteo-serieeus ; segnienti sexti abdoniiiuilis pars ventralis 

 minima, dorsalis major. Tarsi et tibiae iiunlnor iintiiMc ]inl>e brunneo-Hava vestitae. 



Long. 14 mm., elytr. '.>h, lat. 3. 



Green, with a tint of golden, sliiniiig on lu^ad, prothorax, si'iiteihini, and suture. 

 Head finely and sparsely ]]unctulated ; median sulcus somewhat abbreviated in 

 front, strongly so posteriorly, not reaching the hind margin of the u]iper lobes ol 

 the eyes. Antennae lilack. Tlie slmrt and very rugose scape has a strong 

 cicatrix. Prothorax longer tlian broad, bicoustricted, with the front constriction 

 very obsolete; ; finely and very sjiaringly jiunctured ; disc with some fine transverse 

 wrinkles at the siiles ; lateral teeth Munt and standing a little behind the middle, 

 the fold in front of the tooth feeble. Scntellum short, sides somewhat ronnded and 



