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each elytnin with an oblic|iif' wliitc band extending from the shonlder to tlie middle 

 of the sntuve, with the jwsterior ])art less sharply marked; and with two white 

 patches, one small, situated at the apex, the other larger, reaching the outer margin 

 and almost reaching the suture, jilaced in front of the apex; besides these markings 

 there is a rather sparse white pubescence behind the scutellum and in the middle of 

 the sides. Body beneath with a grey pubescence, which is denser at the sides of 

 the sterna and first abdominal segment. Legs also pubescent grey, with a black 

 ring near the apex of the femora ; tibia white in the middle. 



Hab. Kuilu (A. Mocquerj's, 1892). 



Resembles Gripliammii.t Vujatun sp. nov., but is a true Moiiohaminiin with a 

 declivous mesosternnm. 



154. Noserocera tuberosa Bates. 

 Kuilu. Gaboon, ('amcroons. 



Griphammus gen. nov. 



Tibiis intermediis incisura distincta instructis, mesosterni processu prodncto 

 antice verticali, prosterno inter coxas elevato sulcato. Scapo cicatrice valida 

 instructo ; ocnlorum parte iuferiore transversa ; fronte brevi ; prothorace disco 

 inaequali, lateribus deute mediano armato ; pedibus anticis ((?) leviter elongatis, 

 tarsis simjilicibns. 



Type : Griphammus liqntus sp. nov. from Kuilu. 



155. Griphammus ligatus sp. nov. 



(PI. X., fig. 1.) 



cJ ? . (t. ater ; fascia alba antice capitis margiuem frontalem cingente, dein 

 lateraliter trans genas et prothoracem nsque ante elytrorum sutnrae medium 

 continue ascendente, ornatus. Antennis (S) corpore dnplo, (?) tertia parte 

 longioribus, scapo deusiter minute punctato, articuHs basi albis. Prothorace 

 longitndine vix latiore, disco impressione magna hand profunda instructo. 

 Scutello rotundato. Elytris postice albo-variegatis, irregulariter seriatim pnuctatis, 

 interstitiis prope snturam parum elevatis : apicibns truncatis. Corpore infra 

 lateraliter (abdominis segmentis 3° et 4° exceptis) albo-pubcscente. 



Long. IS mm., elytr. 12, lat. 6. 



Black, somewhat glossy ; with a white continuons band, bordering the front 

 margin of the heail, then running from underneath the eyes beyond the prothorax 

 — including the lateral tooth — to the suture of the elytra, ending there iu front 

 of the middle. Head with fine and si)arse imnctures. Antennae of the cJ twice 

 (or more) the length of the body, those of the female a third longer than the 

 body. Prothorax with a large and transversely wrinkled discal impression, which 

 is continuons with a short longitudinal median groove in front ; with coarse 

 punctures at each side close to the base, and with some scattered punctures 

 elsewhere, chiefly above the lateral teeth. Scutellum rounded, with a very lew 

 white hairs at the sides. Elytra irregularly punctured at the sides, seriately 

 punctured near the suture, with the interstices (about 4) of the rows raised, 

 especially in and beyond the middle ; the sntural region between the white 

 bands, and the sj)ace at the outside of the bands black, the remainder of the 

 elytra irregularly spotted with a white pubescence forming a conspicuous white 

 apical patch on each elytron toucliing in fronl u black patch. Uuder surface 



