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shoulders, and more finely and sparsely pnnotured towards the a])ex ; the pnnotnres 

 are black, and confluent here and there. Each elytron with two black patches 

 behind the shonlder, forming a kind of transverse band, and behind this band with 

 an ashy grey ])atch ; iu front of the apex is situated a rather incons])iciions angiilated 

 transverse band. Under surface and legs marbled with black ; middle of tlie 

 metasteruum nearly uniformly olivaceous ashy grey. Intercoxal tubercle of the 

 prosternum strong, suri^assing the coxae ; mesosteriuil process very ranch raised, 

 longer than broad, with the tip rounded. 



Hub. Knilu (A. Moc(juerys, 1892). 



Reminds one also very much of Plirt/neta and Puchystola. 



223. Nyctopais mysteriosus Tiioms. 

 Knilu. 



224. Nyctopais mysticus sji. iiov. 



t? ? . iV. niger ; infra ciiio]-po-]inbescens et nigro-maculatns. Prothorax fascia 

 laterali sub dentem lateralem sita antice et postice versus dorsum cnrvata, fascia 

 secunda supra coxarum cavitates, uotatns. Elytra fascia basali marginem basalem 

 hand attingente ad humeros abbreviata, secnnda mediana marginem lateralem 

 non attingente ; praeterea singnlo elytro macula parva posthumerali laterali, et 

 ante apicem multis maculis niinutis, notato ; fasciis et maculis griseo-flavis. 



S. Long. 11 mm., elvtra 7, lat. 3i. 



?. ,r 10 V "„ 11, „ si- 

 Differs from N. mysferiosas Thoms. in the prothoracic lateral bantl running 

 undemeatii the lateral tooth, and being curved towards tlie disc in front and at 

 the base, with the anterior part dorsally not extending to the middle of the 

 margin. The basal fascia is jilaced farther from the basal margin than in 

 N. ira/steriosus ; the middle band does not extend to the outer border, and the new 

 species has a marginal spot Ijehind the shoulders which is wanting iu N. mysterioms. 

 The elytra are of the same form as iu the latter. 

 Hah. Gold C!oast. 



22.5. Nyctopais fasciatus sj). nov. 



iV. niger; fronte, antennarum articularis K) et lU" (a])icibus extremis exceptis) 

 et toto 11°, prothoracis margine antico et lateribus — fascia longituclinali sub dentem 

 lateralem nigra, — el\-trorum fasciis, una basali, altera mediaiia, et macula anteapicali 

 irregnlare et pnncto in apicibus, griseo-albis parum caerulescentibus ut corpore 

 infra; sternis et abdomine lateraliter maculis nigris notata, praeterea abdominalium 

 segmentorum medio uigro ; ])edibus nigro-maculatis. Elytris lateraliter grosse, 

 versus sutnram minutius j)nnctatis. 



Long 17 mm., elytr. 11^, lat. 6J. 



The ])ubescence of the front extending just to the tine transverse groove 

 between the antennal tubercles. Lateral band of the prothorax including the 

 tooth, the ti]) of which is black. Anterior transverse band of the elytra abbrcviateil 

 at the slioulders, reaching the basal margin near the scutellum ; the second band 

 situated in the middle, a little arcuate laterally; the macula in front of the apex 

 forming an irregular third band, including some black punctures. 



llab. Kuiln (A. Moci|uerys, 1892). 



Differs from i\'. mysteriosus Thoms. in its jiroportionally longer elytra, witJi 

 a different colour and pattern of the marldngs. 



