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subquadrate, bounded behind by a deep semicircular groove, eyevS 

 large, antennae nearly extending to the apex of the elytra, 

 testaceous, the basal Joint long and elender, the seeond scarcely 

 half the length of the third Joint, fourth and following ones 

 eloiigate, nearly eqiial; thorax nearlj three times broader than 

 long, the sides feebly rounded, with a narrow reflexed margin, 

 the siirface convex, shining, impunctate, scutellum triangulär^ 

 elytra very slightly widened towards the middle, nearly impunctate, 

 a few fine punctures only being visible under a very strong lens; 

 below and the legs coloured like the iipper surface, the meta- 

 tarsus of the posterior legs longer than the following joinls 

 together. 



Hab. Cameroons (Conradt). My colleetion. 



S. pallidiconiis is doubtless closely allied to S. lateritia 

 Dahlni. (sub Haltica) but ditfers in being pale te.-^taceous in 

 colonr not rufo-ferrugincus, in having entirely nnieolorous antennae, 

 a niuch broader thorax and the elytra nearly impunctate, not 

 the sides more strongly punctured as the description says of 

 S. lateritia. 



Jamesonia (Thrymnes) castanea sp. n. 



Chestnut-brown, the antennae black (the last Joint fulvous) 

 thorax and elytra cxtremely iinely and closely punctured, below 

 tinely pubeseent. 



Length 6 mill. 



Of broadly ovate shape, dark brown, shining, the head 

 with a few fme punctures, deepl}^ transversely grooved between 

 the eyes, frontal elevations strongly raised, transverse, carina 

 ver}' long and acute, ej'es very large, antennae extending below 

 the base of the elytra, robust, black, the apical or the two 

 apical joints fulvous, third Joint distinctiy shorter than the fourth, 

 this and the following joints rather short and wide; thorax one 

 half broader than long, the sides nearly straight, shghtly narrowed 

 anteriorly, the posterior margia strongh' rounded, the anterior 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1903. 



