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trifid, at the tip (a peculiarity, however, which is apt to be, at first 

 sight, less conspicuous, on account o£ the deep fissures or cavities 

 being more or less filled in with the coarse mud-like scales with which 

 the whole body is densely clothed) . It being also much rounded off 

 posteriorly, and greatly emarginate in front, the shape of the entire 

 prothorax is almost lunate ; and this, added to the largely developed 

 nodules with which its elytra (and, to a less extent, even its anterior 

 segments) are furnished, and its thick, squamose, asperated femora 

 and tibiae, gives the insect a most remarkable appearance, somewhat 

 analogous to that of the Tarphius explicatus of Madeira, or of the 

 T. deformis of Teneriffe. 



TaEPHIOMIMIJS INBENTATUS, 11. Sp. 



T. ohlongus, in medio gihhoso-convexus sed in limbo indentato-expla- 

 natus, valde noduloso-inceqiialis, squamis aJhido-hrumieis et hrunneis 

 densissime suhvariegato-tedus ; capite (antice lato) granulato, et ttiberculis 

 hinis major ihus frontalihus instructo ; prothorace sxih-limulato (scilicet 

 antice prqfunde emarginato et postice rotundato^ , taonen ad utrumque 

 latus valde prof unde 3-iriciso, partihus 4 intermediis lohiformibus necnon 

 (^posteriori excepto) ad apicem plus minus ohtuse et obsolete hi- aut etiam 

 tri-partitis, in disco tuberculis (plerumque in seriebus duabus positis) 

 aucto ; elytris ad apicem singulatim divai'icatis, ubique valde nodosis 

 (nodis versus suturam, prcesertim duobus pone meditcm necnon juxta scu- 

 tellum, altioribus) ; femoribus tibiisque crassis, muricatis, dense squa- 

 mosis ; antennis {clavd obsciiriore excejytd) tarsisque dare rufo-ferru- 

 gineis. Long. corp. lin. l\-2\. 



Saiitat AucMand Novce Zealandice ; collegit Dom. Laioson. 



Teignmouth : May, 1872. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CEABAXES FEOM AFEICA 

 BY HERBERT DRUCE, P.L.S. 



ClIARAXES NOBILIS, n. S. 



^ . Upper-side : black, crossed by a broad creamy-white band, 

 commencing at the end of the cell of the fore-wing, and terminating at 

 the abdominal margin of the hind-wing ; a white spot near the apex 

 of the fore-wing, and an orange spot at the anal angle ; hind-wing with 

 two tails. 



Under-side : fore-wing black, crossed by a creamy-white band from 

 the cell to the inner margin ; a silvery-white mark at the end of cell, 



