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-'. Blaberops macrocerus siioc. nov. 



t??. Black; aiitciiiia (e.\cej)t cliili), tV-iiiora ami tibiae rnfcsceiit or minus; 

 uiRlerside pubesccut grey ; niiperside grey, variegated witli brown. Upper edge 

 of anteuual groove elevate in cJ. Profliorax as long as broad, widest in middle, 

 the sides being rounded, densely punctate-reticulate. Elytra less abruptly 

 declivous beliind tlian in Blriljenix f(iU(i.i-,yeg\x\&\\\' and distinctly pnnctatestriate. 

 Pygidinm lunger than broad in J, slightly truncate, in ¥ a little shorter than 

 broad, rounded. 



Length, 3 to 4 mm. 



Hab. Magila, U.-^ambara, 2. vi. 1898 (Legros), type; Amagava, Zulnland. 



5 cJcJ, 1 ?. 



3. Anthribus planatus spec. nov. 



tj. Rufescent brown, covered witli an olivaceous and a clayish pubescence ; 

 a triangular lateral patch on elytrnm beginning at shoulder angle and extending 

 to the third interspace, which it reaches before middle, and a transverse band 

 across both elytra before apical declivity, olivaceous, rather indistinct, except in 

 certain lights. 



(Carina of rostrum prominent. Antenna longer than the body (cJ), segments 

 3 to 5 rather strongly incrassate at apex, and hardly longer than broad. Prothorax 

 longer than bmad, rounded at the sides, widest just behind middle, not punctureil. 

 Elytra rather flat above, strongly punctate, striate, without tufts, one large tubercle 

 before a])ex extending from stripe 3 to 8. No jmnctures on underside. First 

 abdominal segment with a large rounded ]iatch of a clayish dchraceous jiubescence. 



Length, 14 mm. 



llab. Gold ( 'oast. 



1 (?. 



Euphloeobius gen. nov. 



c??. Similar to I'/doeobius. Antenna! groove large, triangular, close to eye, 

 covered, its upj)er edge being cariniform. Eye sinuate, larger than in Pldoeobins, 

 twice as long as broad in dorsal aspect, its upper lobe projecting forward over 

 the hinder edge of the antennal groove. Rostrum and false mentum sinuate. 

 Antenna short, not reaching base of prothorax, segment ',' longer than 3, some- 

 what pyriform, 3 longer than 4, 8 rather thicker than 7, club comiiact, short, 

 triarticnlate, segment 9 hardly longer than apically I)road, 10 twice as broad as long. 



Carina of pronotum basal, not extending to middle of sides, angle acute. 

 Second segment of tarsi less triangular and third much smaller than in Phloeobiua. 



Type : E. ascllus spec. nov. 



4. Euphloeobius asellus spec. nov. 



S ? . Brown-black, densely covered with a greyish white pubescence ; prouotum, 

 except a large anterior median area and declivous jiortion of base of elytra 

 cinnamon, mottled with black ; elytra more or less faintly tesselated with black 

 and brown, each with or without a black sharply defined spot on disc behind 

 middle ; antenna rufescent, club brown-black. 



Rostrum more than twice as broad as long, flat, imjiressed laterally before 

 the eye. 



Frons with a short carina. Prothorax twice as broad at base as at apex, 

 with two longitudinal depressions on disc, subcarinate mesially, sinuate at side 



