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a whitish pubescence ; the first baud placed at the extreme base and externally 

 runuiug from the inside of the shoulder angles to about the end of the anterior 

 quarter of the outer margin ; the second band parallel to the first, beginning behind 

 the postscntellar sjiot and united at the external margin with the third liaiid, which 

 reaches the suture at about the beginning of the a]jical fifth ; apical margin uf the 

 elytra clothed with a reddish and white pubescence. 

 Hab. Gold Coast. 



230. Rhaphidopsis virens sp. nfiv. 



c??. 7vV/. nigra, infra viridi-seric-uus ei subcaerulescens, supra fasciis maculisque 

 viridibus jjarum fulvescentibus ornata. t'aput viride, vertice uigro, uculis viridi- 

 cinctis. Prothorax fasciis duabus transversis nigris notatus. Elytra fasciis 

 transversis, una basali, secnnda mediana, maciilaque magna obliipia anteapicali 

 ornata, inter fascias et ad apicem \iridi-marmorata ; sparsim puuctulata. 



Long. 'M mm., elytr. IT, lat. 7^. 



Varying in the pattern of the elytra. The aiiical macula is wanting in nm- ma/e 

 specimen ; in another exami)le the median liand is also wanting. 



Hfi6. Kuilu (A. Mocquerys, IsOi;). 



In shape closely allied to L'//. jjidc/icl/a (Westw.), Imt the colour is dittereut, 

 and the punctuation of the sides of the elytra is much finer and sparser. 



No/c. — The a-euus Cluuiestkfs Chevr., omitted \)\ Lacordaire in his Geu<T<i des 

 Colroptih-es, seems to me to be wrongly jilaced by its author in the group Saperdini. 

 The claws are divergent, not divaricate, as in the true Siqier'lini, and tlie intermediate 

 tibiae are grooved, not simple. These characters, in addition t(; the rec'tangular 

 iront of the head and the horseshoe-shaped impression between the antennae, 

 indicate a close reiationshiiJ of Charic.'ithc« to Lacordaire"s " Tragocephalides " as 

 Well as lo his " Apomecyuides." In the latter group there is indeed a genus 

 Aji/icniastiis Thorns., to which Chariestkcs is very closely allied ; but since the 

 Museum t'ollectiun contains a rather large number of different forms which are 

 similar to Uhariestltes as well as to Phi/matostfrna Cast, and lilmphidoii^ls Gerst.. 

 1 have no doubt that all these forms, together with Apheniastus, are better 2)laced 

 in the gronji of " Tragocephalides " after the genus Rhaphidopsis. 



I have to iirojjose two new genera for some of the sjiecies hitherto |)laced umler 

 Uharicsthes, together with some new ones, and give the following syuojisis of the 

 genera : — 



I. Chariesthes Chevr. {Rev. ZooL, 1858, p. 312). 



Tyjie : Sapcrda hdla Dalm. (Schoenh., Sijn. Ins., i. 3, A])]!., p. 170). 

 Scapo cicatrice parva instructo, elytris apice rotundatis \el snliacumiuatis, 

 processn prosternali rotnndato, mesosternali declivi vel subverticali non tubercnlatn. 



II. Graciella gen. no v. 



Type : Uharii'sthrx concinnu Chevr. {I. c. p. 315). 

 Scapo sine cicatrice, elytris apice trnncatis, processn jirosternali rotnndato, 

 mesosternali subverticali, margiue rotnndato. 



III. Murosternum gen. nov. 



Ty]ie : C/uireiMl/u'g dalmiaiui (jhcvr. (/. f., ji. 315). 

 Scajio sine cicatrice, elytris singulis apice rotundatis vel acnmiuatis, processibns 

 prosternali et mesosternali elevatis, antice perpendiculatis. 



