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'-iiiT. Phryneta spinator ab. obscura (Oliv.). 

 Gold ( 'oast and Bopoto (Upper Cougo). 



268. Phryneta macularis Har. 

 Bopoto (Upjier Congo). 



269. (?) Phryneta coeca ( 'licvr. 

 Ogowe. 



270. Chreostes obesa (Westw.). 

 Magalies Berge (Transvaal). 



271. Homelix litui-ata (Qned.). 

 Kuilii and " (!ongo." 



This species is wrongly placed, 1 l)elieve, in the genus Eun/sops Thorns. It 

 differs from this genus in the form of the head, structure of antennae and 

 mesothorax, etc., and agrees quite well witli Homelix. 



272. Homelix variegata s]). no v. ^ 



//. brunneo-nigra, pube griseo-lutea variegata. Antennis uiiieoIoril)us. us(|ne 

 ad aj)ieem crassis. Prothoraco ilisco medio depresso, quadribulboso ; dente laterali 

 subrecto sat brevi, hand acnto. Elytris post medium nounullis maculis i)runneo- 

 uigris uotatis, basi sat seriatim foveolato-punctatis, punctis profnnde imjiressis 

 rotnudatis, sed sub humeros trausversis deusissimis, versus apicem miUto minu- 

 tioribus. Processu prosteruali lougo, arcuato, mesosteriiali brevissimo. 



Long. 25 mm., elytr. Is, lat. S^. 



Clothed with a greyish buff pubescence, and spotted with black, blackish brown, 

 and grey. Structure of the prothorax similar to that of Eurysops liturata Qued., but 

 the grooves are less deep and the bulljons jiarts of the disc less raised ; the lateral 

 teeth rather short and somewhat blunt. Punctures on the base of the elytra rounded 

 and very deep, those behind and under the shoulders distinctly transverse and very 

 deep. Each elytron with an irregular macula behind the middle, and with a smaller 

 one in front of the first near the suture ; both spots ill-delined .-ind brownish black. 

 Legs densely spotted with black; sides of each abdominal segment witli a rounded 

 blackish spot; pro- and mesosternnm witli a longitudinal streak of a whitish buff 

 colour, rather feeble on the prosternum. 



Hah. Knilu (A. Moccjuerys, l.s92). 



This species is a true Homelix as regards the form of the head and antennae 

 and the structure of the pro- and mesosternnm. 



273. Synhomelix annulicornis (Chevr.). 

 Sierra Leone. 



274. Pachystola erinaceus sp. nov. 



P. nigra ; pube sordide griseo-brunuea nigro-variegata obtecta, supra pilis 

 erectis longis griseis et brunneis vestita. Prothorax multi-tuberculatus, tubercnlis 

 lateraliter validis. Elytra fere parallela, usque trans medium tubercnlata, dein 

 sparsim jjunctata. Processus prosterni rotnndatus, mesosterni tleclivis medio pro- 

 fnnde snicatus. Abdominis segmenta lateraliter macula nigro-brunnea notata, 

 segnicntniu ultimura medio profunde impressum. 



Long. :iO mm., elytr. 22, lat. 11. 



