FAUVEL, STAPHYLINID^E RECUEILLIS AU CAMEROUN. 243 



Tachinomorphus africanus Epp., Deut. Ent. Zeits., 

 1895, 121. 



Canieroun. — San Thonie, Gabon, Sierra-Leone, Togo, 

 Angola, Zululand, Natal, Usanibara. 



Atheta dilutipennis Möts., Bull. Mosc, 1858. III, 252. ? 

 — Mucronata Iyr,, Wiegm. Archiv. 1859, 29. — Putrescens 



AVoll., Träns. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1862, 185; 1871, 292. — Mars., 

 L'Abeille, 1864, I, XCI. — Subpiitrescens Woll., Col. Hesper., 

 1867, 223. — JDestituta Waterh., Ann. Nat. Hist., 1876, 

 XVIII, 108; Phil. Träns. R. Soc. Lond., CLNXHI, 514. 



Cameroun. — San Thonie, Congo, Gabon, Cap Vert, Ca- 

 naries, Mozambique, Zanguebar. Madagascar, Maurice, La 

 Réunion, lie Rodriguez, Sechelles, Ceylan, Inde niéridionale, 

 Sumatra, Java, Celebes. 



Zyras sulcicollis n. sp. — Plancbe 11, fig. 5. 



Liter majores. In sectione Kojtyi Epp. collocandus. Niger, 

 latus, sat nitidus, parce fulvo-pubescens, tlioracis disco abdo- 

 mineque plus niinusve piceis, antennis rufo-piceis, his articu- 

 lis 2 primis, ore, thoracis lateribus, ano pedibusque plus mi- 

 uusve rufis vel rufo-testaceis, maxillis longe mandibulas su- 

 jDerantibus, productis. Antennse sat breves, thoracem parum 

 superantes, articulis 2—3 fere eequilongis, 4 — 10 inter se lon- 

 gitudine vix decrescentibus, conicis, haud longioribus quam 

 latioribus, llo longiore, obtuso, rufo. Caput breve, transver- 

 sum, parum dense fortiter punctatum, fronte conica, fortiter 

 medio carinata, post carinam spatio disci l^evigato, oculis ma- 

 ximis, genis post oculos subdenticulatis. Thorax capite vix 

 tertia parte latior, duplo fere latior quam longior, profunde 

 marginatus, antice parum, postice fortius angustatus, angulis 

 anticis obtusis, posticis denticulatis, basi sinuatim elevatus, 

 lateribus late explanatis, disco longe biimpressus, impressione 

 ultra medium antice evanescente, ante scutellum transversim 

 lineato-fossatus, capite densius fortiter punctatus, spatio lato 

 inter sulcos, spatiisque duobus parvis extus disco medio lse- 

 vibus. Elytra thorace sat latiora, transversa, dense fortiter 

 quasi squamulatim seriato-punctata. Abdomen segmentis 2 

 — 5 subtiliter minus dense punctulatis, 6o utrinque oblique 

 sulcato, sulco extus carina limitato. tf fronte poris 2 seti- 

 geris post carinam utrinque notatis; abdominis segmento 2o 



