Cr/roMIDAI' FKUM WKST AKiaCA 3'i7 



and evenly retlexed and llie angles sligiiliy rounded. Thorax 

 broadest and with the sides ()))tnseh' angulatod in the middle; 

 as broad at the base as Inw^; the l)ase slig-htly rounded, distinctly 

 margined and Avitli sliarp right angles; the side margins lightly 

 crenated ; the disk convex , sparsely punctured , the punctures of 

 a crescent or ring form and closer towards the sides: a shallow 

 fovea on each side near the middle of the margin. Scutellum 

 rounde I at the sides and almost heart shaped, sparsely punctured 

 as on llie thorax. Elytra broadest about the middle, rounded and 

 narrowed to the base and behind and separately rounded at the 

 apex ; iunneral and apical callosities moderately prominent ; each 

 elytron with nine regular rows of shallow horse-shoe sha|)ed 

 punctures the interior of which generally bear a white spot; the 

 interstices slightly convex. Pygidium somewhat produced , evenly 

 convex, sparsely and indistinctly punctured and slightly hirsute^ 

 at the apex. Underside strigose and sparsely pilose ; abdomen 

 with an irregular strigiform punctuation, very slightly impressed 

 in the centre and somewhat flattened at tlie apex. Legs long , 

 sparsely punctured and thinly fringed with yellow hair; outer 

 edge of the fore tibiae with a small tooth a little below the 

 middle and a larger one near tlie apex; middle tibiae curved in 

 the basal part, these and the hind til)iae with some small thorn 

 like spines on the outside and apex; middle and hind tarsi very 

 long and with the first four joints spinose at the apex on both 

 sides; the claws large. Length 20-22 nun. 



Ashanti (Tamsoo) G. A. Higlett. Fernand Po Is. (liasilè , 

 400-(;00 m. August-September 11)01). L. Fea. 



This interesting Trichiid, for which I have found it necessary 

 to create a new^ genus , agrees with lucala in the absence of a 

 mesosternal process and other characters as well as in its general 

 aspect, but the different formation of the cly})eus, the absence of 

 strongly produced anterior angles of the thorax, -the costate and 

 striate-})unctate elytra and the doubly spinose apex of the tarsal 

 joints will suffice to at once distinguish it : it also shews affinity 

 to the genus Eudoxazus. 



I have long possessed a specimen of this insect that was 

 taken by ^I. G. A. Higlett at Taiusoo in the ^\^assaw district of 

 Ashanti, a second exampk> contained in ?d. Fea's collection is of 

 a rather larger size , of a lighter colour and A\ith the legs che- 



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