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ished, black, the head, pionotiim and suffused limb of the elytra dark piceo- 

 rufous ; under surface piceous, the legs, palpi and antennie pale testaceous ; 

 pronotum and elytra strongly and equally punctate, the former closely, the lat" 

 ter sparsely and without trace of impressed lines at any part. Length 1.8 

 mm. ; width 1. 7 mm. Liberia (Mt. Coffee). Taken in abundance by Mr. 

 Cook. 



The genus Xcstolotis is similar to Lotis in the structure of the front, 

 but has the clypeal margin more broadly truncate and only very feebly 

 sinuate ; the eyes are not emarginate and the antennae are rather well 

 developed, with the club flattened, compact and elongate-oval ; the 

 fourth joint of the maxillary palpi is very obliquely securiform, the 

 free apex somewhat prolonged and finely acuminate. The coxae are 

 all widely separated, the tarsi well developed and subcompressed, and 

 the claws simple, becoming arcuately thickened internally toward base. 

 The abdomen is composed of five segments ; the metacoxal plates at- 

 tain the segmental apex toward the sides and are concave. The fifth 

 ventral is longer than the preceding, as in all genera with true five- 

 segmented abdomen, and, in all my representatives, the tip of the ab- 

 domen is deflexed, this being apparently a normal condition. The 

 epipleurae are uneven and subfoveolate, the met-episterna remarkably 

 divided at a point opposite the extremity of the straight mesocoxal 

 line, and the third tarsal joint is evidently free. It may be distin- 

 guished from Sticholotis (^punctata) by the characters of the epipleurae 

 and met-episterna, as well as by the more finely faceted and entire 

 eyes, which, in Sticholotis, are nearly as coarsely granulated as in the 

 rhyzobiids and slightly emarginated by the post-antennal parts of the 

 front. 



Chilocorus cooki, sp. nov. — Broadly rounded, polished ; head, pronotum, entire 

 under surface and legs pale brownish-testaceous ; elytra black, a large oval 

 basal spot on the suture of the same color as the anterior parts, extending, at 

 the basal margin, two-fifths from the suture, and, on the latter, slightly beyond 

 the middle ; punctures minute and sparse, each surrounded by a fine irregular 

 ring of extremely minute punctulation ; epipleurce piceous-black, testaceous 

 inwardly. Length 5.4 mm. ; width 4.8 mm. Liberia (Mt. Coffee). Named 

 in honor of Mr. O. F. Cook. 



Exochomus versutus AIuls. — Wellington. 



Exochomus flavipes Thunb. — Wellington. 



Platynaspis capicola Crotch. — Wellington. 



Telsimia (gen. nov.) tetrasticta, sp. nov. — Broadly elliptical, evenly and moder- 

 ately convex, shining, finely but strongly, sparsely impresso-punctate, clothed 

 rather sparsely throughout with somewhat long suberect and ashy pubescence, 

 black, the legs but slightly picescent ; each elytron with two rounded testaceous 



