694 COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN EAST AFEICA—LINELL. vol.xviii. 



disk, behind middle, approximate to lateral margin; the two anterior 

 pairs of sjiots with a brown ocellus. Legs brown, with dense, silky 

 pubescence, grayish, becoming ochreous yellow on the inside of tibiie 

 and beneath the tarsi. 



Type. — No. 29, U.S.X.M. One example. Tana ]\i ver. Length, 23 mm. 



ALPHITOPOLA CHANLERI, new species. 



Elongate, parallel, nearly impunctate (except on the elytra), reddish 

 brown, sparsely clothed with a fine gray pubescence, varied with large 

 spots of longer, appressed, very dense, ochreous- white hairs. Auteuuie 

 one-half longer than body, slender, immaculate; scape as long as fourth 

 joint, stout, gradually and slightly clavate, third joint one-third longer 

 than fourth. Head as broad as thorax, mostly white; an impressed 

 line on the vertex, a deeply imjiressed arc between the antennal tuber- 

 cles and a fine carina along the front, glabrous; a vertical line of gla- 

 brous granules on each side of the front; brown spots on vertex and 

 gensie. Prothorax cylindrical, as long as broad, constricted about 

 equally deejdy at base and apex, with small granuliform lateral tuber- 

 cles at middle; sides broadly white, the tubercle and a round spot below, 

 brown; a broad white dorsal vitta, abbreviated and triangular in front, 

 including a brown median stripe behind the middle. Elytra much 

 broader than thorax, truncate at base, somewhat constricted at sides 

 behind the prominent humeri, slightly narrowed toward apex; the 

 scutellum, an oblong sutural spot behind it, a small median basal spot, 

 a larger spot in front of and below the humerus, and a broad vitta from 

 the humeral umbone to apex of elytron, white. This vitta is oblique 

 in front, includes a round brown spot before middle, and is nearly inter- 

 rupted behind the middle by another round spot connected with the 

 brown side margin; the punctuation only visible on the brown jiarts, 

 deej) and coarse at the base, asj^erately rugose at the umbones, gradu- 

 ally finer posteriorly and obsolete at apex. Ventral surface brown 

 along the middle, sides of thorax and a series of large spots each side 

 of abdomen, white. Mesosternum convex, vertical in front. Interme- 

 diate femora with a densely pubescent spot at middle and intermediate 

 tibiic obliquely sinuate and ciliate before apex, the posterior iih'rx, 

 ciliate but not sinuate. 



Typ^' — ^o. 30, U.S.N.M. One example, Tana River. Length, 17 mm. 



MELIXANTHUS IMMACULATUS, new species. 



Oval, above fulvous, glabrous, polished. Antenn.^e reaching some- 

 what bej'ond the posterior angles of thorax, the five basal joints fulvous; 

 first joint inflated, longer than second and third together; second glo- 

 bosely oval; third, fourth, and fifth clavate, increasing in length; sixth 

 to eleventh deep black, sparsely tomentose, forming a distinct serrate 

 club. Head, black; eyes, deeply emarginate; front yellow, canaliculate 

 at middle, with a few punctures ; clypeus separated by a shallow im- 



