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tarsus of tlie jxisteiior legs as long as the fnllowing two joints 

 together, elaws bifid, the anterior coxal cavities open. 



Hab. Sassa, Bahr el Ghazal, also Cameroons. 



This is a well distiuguished species of which I have feen 

 thiee. apparently female speeimens; it differs from any of its 

 Africau allies in the silky green pubescenee of the elytra. 



Luperodes castaneus sp. n. 



Broad and elongate, blaek, thorax transverse. pale fulvous, 

 impunctate, elytra reddish-brown, very closely and strongly 

 punctured, under side thickly clothed with grey pubescenee. 



Length 8 mill. 



Head blaek, shining and impunctate, transversely grooved 

 betweeu the eres, Avith a small central fovea, frontal elevations 

 and carina broad and tlattened, antennae rather short, not 

 extending to the niiddle of the eljtra, blaek, the lower thi-ee 

 joinls shining-, the others pubescent, seeond and third Joint short, 

 bat the latter Joint double the length of the preeeding one, the 

 following somewhat thickened, the terminal two joints more 

 elongate and slender; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides 

 feebly rounded and very slightly narrowed anteriorly, the anterior 

 angles slightly obliquely thickened, the disc rather convex, shining 

 and impunctate, durk tlavous, scutelluni impunctate, fulvous; 

 elytra dark brown, extremely closely and distinctly jjuncturtd, 

 their epipleurae indistinct below the middle, legs rather robust, 

 blaek, like the rest of the under surface, densely pubescent, the 

 melatarsus of the posterior legs very elongate, all the tibiae 

 mucronate, the anterior coxal cavities open 5 last abdominal 

 segmeut of the male \a ith a strongly transverse but very short 

 median lobe. 



A large size species, the thorax impunctate, the head, 

 antennae and under surface blaek; the long metatarsus aud the 

 other characters pointed out above agrees best with Luperodes 

 if this genus is to be retained. 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1903. 



