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as broad as lonjr, the sides produced into a couical tubercle, the disc with an 

 anterior and posterior transverse f^roove, nearly imjjnnctate, the middle with a 

 black spot (sometimes absent), elytra parallel, strongly but remotely punctured, 

 each puncture furnished with a single black hair, a spot on the shoulder and 

 a transverse band at the middle of greater or smaller size, black ; below fulvous, 

 the sides of the thorax and that of the l)reast and abdomen, black ; legs of the 

 same colour, the apex of the posterior femora fulvous. 

 Hab. Kuilu. 



Poecilomorpha aureovillosa sp. nov. 



Fulvous, clothed with golden yellow jiubescence, apical joints of the antennae 

 and the four anterior legs black ; thorax impunctate, elytra strongly and remotelv 

 punctured, clothed with golden pubescence. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Head impianctate, sparingly pubescent, eyes deeply notched, labrnm furnished 

 with long yellow hairs, antennae with the basal four joints fulvous, shining, the 

 others black, strongly transverse, broader thau loug, the fourth joint scarcely 

 longer thau the second one ; thorax transverse, the sides oblique, narrowed 

 anteriorly, the posterior angles produced into a strong blunt tubercle, the surface 

 with a transverse sulcus near the anterior and posterior margin, impunctate, 

 sparingly clothed with golden yellow pubescence ; elytra depressed below the 

 base across the suture, remotely p>uictured, the pubescence long but not closely 

 placed, entirely golden yellow without a mi.xture of black hairs ; underside and 

 the posterior legs fulvous, pubescent, the four anterior legs black. 



Hab. Kuilu. A single specimen. 



Smaller than P. amnbilis Baly, with diiferently coloured antennae and legs, 

 and distinct by the impunctate thorax. 



Kuilua gen. nov. {Megalopinae). 



Body flattened, elongate, widened j)osteriorly, closely pubescent, antennae 

 with transversely serrated joints, the second joint extremely short, eyes notched, 

 thorax broader than long, the sides widened in shape of a tubercle, closely 

 pubescent, elytra flattened, irregularly punctured, and closely pubescent, the sides 

 perpendicularly deflexed, not visible from above, legs elongate, the posterior 

 tibiae with a double spine, the tarsal joints nearly equal, claws simple, widely 

 separated, prosternum and mesosteruum very narrow. 



This remarkable genus, which resembles much in general a])i)earance and 

 coloration a species of the family Lycidae or Telephoridne is allied to the genus 

 Homaloptcrus Lac, with which it nearly agrees in the structure of the antennae 

 and that of the elytra, but the thorax is quite diflerent as well as the flattened 

 general appearance and the double spine at the apex of the piosterior tibiae. 



Kuilua africana sp. nov. 



Black, above fulvous, closely pubescent, antennae black, the last joint 

 fulvous, the head with a lateral spot and a central black band, thorax similarly 

 marked, elytra closely punctured with long fulvous pubescence, the ai)ical third 

 jiortion black. 



Length oi to G lines. 



