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Of oblong, convex and parallel shape, the head rugosely 

 punctured, nictallic green, the extreme base and the lower portion 

 of tlie face, pale fulvous; frontal tubereles narrowly transverse, 

 antennae extending below the base of the elytra; the lower 

 four Joiuts fiilvous, the rest blaek, third and foin-th Joint slender, 

 the latter slightly longer than the preceding Joint, terminal joints 

 gradually thickened and shortened; thorax about one half broader 

 than long, subquadrate, the angles produced into a small tooth, 

 the anterior ones especially i)r()minent, the diso strongly rugose, 

 green, submetalHc, with some copperv reflections, scutellum broad, 

 pale fulvous; elytra much broader at the base than the thoi-ax, 

 strongly convex, very finely and closely rugose and wrinkled, 

 the lateral margins obscure fulvous; below and the lege of the 

 latter colour, the fiist Joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the 

 following joints together, claws bifid, anterior coxal cavities open. 



Hab. Cameroons (my collection). 



Nirinoides gen. n. 



Body broadly ovate, pubescent above. antennae with slender 

 basal joints, the terminal ones M'idened; thorax transverse, 

 obsoletely foveolate, the sides angulate at the middle; tibiae 

 longitudinally sulcate, tarsi broad, the tirst Joint elongate, the 

 second and third short, equal, claws distinctly bifid; anterior 

 coxal cavities open. 



I propose this genus for the reception of two species which 

 are closely allitd generically to Nii'ina Weise bat differ in the 

 structure of the antennae, the angulate thorax, the simply sulcate 

 tibiae, the longer third Joint of the tarsi and the distinctly 

 bifid claws. 



Nirinoides Staudingeri sp. n. 



Below black, above obscure testaceous, head black at the 

 Vertex, thorax closely punctured with four blaek spots, elytra 

 widened posteriorly, extremely closely punctured and elothed 

 with very short fulvous pubescence. 



Length 10 mill. 



sie«, ontoniol. Zeit. 1903. 



