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Anteniiao black, three times tlie length of tlie bndy in tlie i, and one-and- 

 Lalf time in the ?, basal halt' of the fnurth joint of a bntf colour. Prothorax 

 withont longitudinal streaks, except a faint and more or less blackish median line, 

 which is a little more conspicuous near the front margin. Scntcllum rounded. 

 Ehtra witli a scattered punctuation; the apical jiart (about ith the length of the 

 elytra) of a Idack colour. Under surface and legs bhxck ; middle of tlie ])rosternnn-i 

 pitchy. Mesosternum somewhat sparsely, and the episterna of the metasteruum 

 densely ashy grey pubescent. 



Hab. Sierra I,eone. 



2ri2. Proctocera senegalensis (Thoms.). 

 Kniln, Gaboon. 



2"!:',. Proctocera scalaris < hevr. 

 Gold Coast. Kniln, Gaboon. 



254. Diastocera trifasciata (Fabr.). 

 Sierra Leone, Senegal. P)aln-eI-Abiad (Heuglin). 



2.);"). Ceroplesis quinquefasciata (Fabr.). 

 Bopoto (Upper Congo). 



2.")(). Ceroplesis fissa liar. 

 Bojioto (Upper t'ongo). 



2.")T. Ceroplesis orientalis (Hbst.). 

 Bojioto (Upper Congo), " Congo," Galiniin, Angola. 



2i)f<. Ceroplesis mechowi Qned. 

 Bopoto (Upper ('ongo). 



25'.!. Ceroplesis minuta sp. nov. 



S. C. nigra ; antennanmi tuberibns verticalibus api)roximatis. Prothorace 

 latitndine longitudini aequali, lateribns vi.x, dorso distiucte transverse bisulcato 

 vel biconstricto, tuberculo laterali nullo, disco pauce irregulare, praecipue ad 

 basim minute traiisversim strignloso. .Scntello ajnce truncato, augnlis rotundatis. 

 Elytris dense rugose punctatis, toto margine laterali, apice, qninque fasciis trau.s- 

 versis fere regulariter dispositis rufis, prima et secunda, quarta et quinta ad suturam 

 nnitis, prima in medio cnni ramificatione obli(|ne versus scntelhnu directa : sntura 

 parum rufescente. 



Long. 14 J mm., elytr. Hi, lat. 3f. 



This very small and narrow species is allied to C. quinqucj'asciata (Fabr.) as 

 regards the narrow bands of the elytra ; but it may be at once distinguislied by 

 its size, by the absence of a distinct lateral tootli on the prothorax, the latter 

 having only a slight trace of a tubercle behind the middle of tin- sides, and by the 

 outer margin of tlie elytra being entirely rnfons. 



Ilab. Natal. 



20n. Moecha hecate Chcvr. 

 Gold ('oast, Kiger, Cameroims. Kiiilii, Bopirfo (U])])er Congo), and Loaiida. 



