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2'MK Chariesthes nobilis sp. uov. 

 (PI. X., fig. '■) 



? . C'k. supra, 'nigra, inl'ra ochracea, pnbe alba vestita. (Japut froiite medio 

 brunneum, inter antennas et in vertice nigrum, macnia ])arva elongata alba inter 

 oculornm partes siiperiores sita, notatum. Antennae corjioi-c dnjilo (?) longiores, 

 uigrae ; soajjo, articnlis secnndo toto et tertio basi lateo-rufis. Prothorax duabns 

 macnlis nigris notatns, una dorsali ad marginem auteriorem magna, secunda pjarva 

 in medio laternm sita. Elytra angulo humerali ochracea, singulura elytrnm macnlis 

 tribus nigris notatum, i)riina laterali autemediana, secunda antemediana discoidali, 

 tertia laterali postmediana ; praeterea in suturae medio macula nigra communi 

 rotunda ; parte a]]icali nigra dujibus macnlis alliis transverse disjiositis ornata. 

 Infra lateraliter alba. 



Long. 9| mm., elytr. (5|, lat. :!J. 



The white pubescence has a very fainl tint of yell<iw, chietly on the heail. 

 Front of the head with a longitudinal median brown band, not extending to the 

 anterior margin of the epistome. Antennal tubers black, like the vertex, the 

 latter bearing a narrow longitudinal white sjiot. Tlie dorsal black marking of the 

 prothorax extending beyond the middle of the disc. JScutellum white, almost 

 semicircular. The apical i^uartcr of the elytra black, with two white spots on 

 each elytron placed in the middle of the black region : one, rounded, near the 

 outer margin ; the second, a little longer than the first, near the suture. Sides 

 of the under surface white, except the base of the second, third, and fourth alidominal 

 segments, where the white pubescence is wanting. 



Hab. Kuilu (A. Mowiuerys, 1892). 



2411. Chariesthes multinotata Chevr. 

 Kuilu. Only one specimen of rather small size, the head of which wants the 

 black spots met with in Chevrolat's type ; its elytra have eighteen spots, not twenty, 

 as the first basal one on each elytron is wanting. 



Graciella gen. nov. 

 For generic characters see p. •Jlo. 



241. Graciella couciuna (Chevr.). 

 Ktiilu, Ogowe K., Fernando Po. 



242. Graciella compacta sp. nov. 



¥. <r. ochraccMj-ierrugiuca. Antennae nigro-brunneae, scapo ferrngineo. ( 'ajiut 

 ad frontis latera et inter oculornm partes superiores et post ocnlos album. 

 Prothorax albns, lasi-iis tribus latis longitudinalibns ferrugineis notatns. iScutcllum 

 rotundatum. Elytra macnlis tribus cominunilms albis, prima parva antemediana, 

 secunda mediana rotunda, tertia anteapicali ad suturam minute intcrrupta ; praeterea 

 singulum elytrnm macnlis quinque notatum, una liasali j)rope scutellum sita 

 rotunda, caeteris lateralibus, una posthumerali parva, secunda majore, rotunda, 

 antemediana, tertia postmediana sat jiarva leviter transversa, (juarta anteapicali 

 minuta, posthumerali subaeqiiali. Infra lateraliter alba. 



Long. 0^ mm., elytr. 6|, lat. :J|. 



Scape and second joint of the blackish brown antennae of a tawny ochreous 

 colour, with a slight tint of rufous. Head with a straight white band at each 

 side of the front, extending from the ant(MUhil tubes to the base of the epistome ; 



