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before hiuder augle ; lateral carina stopping at basal thirJ. Elytra cylindrical, 

 Iialf as long again as broad, depressed at basal margin ; the rows of punctures 

 not distinct distally ; second and third interspace raised behind basal depression; 

 these slight tubercles black. Spine-like bristles at apex of hindtibia and first 

 hindtarsal segment rather long and strong. 



Length, 6i mm. 



Ilab. Ikntha, British East Africa ; received from Prof. Dr. Hanser. 



In one of the three specimens I have seen there is a black obli(pTe dash behind 

 the middle of each elytriim {ti/pe), in a second there is a rounded black patch, while 

 the third individual is devoid of that mark. 



5. Epitaphius lunatus spec. nov. 



Brown-black, covered with a greyish white pubescence ; legs rufescent ; seg- 

 ments o and of antenna and club black, rest white; sides of pronotnm and elytra 

 somewhat clayish ; pronotum with three abbreviated, not sharply marked, black 

 lateral vittac ; scutellum white ; elytrnm with an oblicjue clayish patch at base ; 

 alternate interstices faintly clayish, the white ones tesselated with black, the 

 black marks in interspaces 3 and 5 long and few in number ; an oblong subapical 

 area common to both elytra encircled by a black line which begins in the middle 

 of the suture and gradually fades away posteriorly ; shoulder black below. First 

 tarsal segment greyish white, black at extreme base, the others black; tibiae with 

 a brown spot at base. 



Rostrum twice as broad as long. Segments 3 to 6 of antenna gradually 

 decreasing in length, 7 a very little longer than 6, 9 as long as 3, 10 half as broad 

 again as long. Prothorax convex, rather strongly impressed before base, the 

 impression divided ; carina evenly curved from side to side, not angulate, not 

 reaching to middle of sides. Elytra cylindrical, evenly and rather feebly striate ; 

 base depressed. Pygidium broader than long. First foretarsal segment nearly 

 as long as the other three segments together. 



Length, mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Hub. Ikutha, British East Africa. 



Two specimens, received from Prof. Dr. Hauser. 



0. Phloeobius lineifer spec. nov. 



?. Black, densely covered with a luteous grey pubescence; antenna brown- 

 black ; tibiae and tarsi brown-black, irregularly ringed with grey ; pronotnm with 

 two indistinct brown stripes laterally; scutellum and alternate interspaces of 

 elytra whitish grey, first, third and ninth tesselated with black, third from base 

 to middle and fifth from middle to apical declivity quite black. 



Rostrum and frons witiiout groove and carina. Antenna short, hardly reaching 

 base of prothorax, segment 2 short, scarcely half as long again as broad, 3 nearly 

 twice the length of 2, only a little longer than 4, shorter than 9, 8 a little longer 

 and broader than 7, ^ asymmetrical, subtruucate at base, here as wide as at apex, 

 10 also subtruucate at base, 11 longer than broad. Prothorax about one-third 

 broader than long, slightly sinuate laterally before base, narrowed from before 

 middle to apex, with the apical angle i)rojecting, the sides being carinate in front; 

 this frontal carina not continuous with the lateral branch of the basal carina ; 

 hinder angle a little over 90°; disc conve.x in front, feebly depressed behind; 

 anterior edge of pronotum somewhat curving forwards, the prothorax being about 



