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hairs, similar to those of the elytra. The fore-legs are not notably 

 longer than the others ; the middle tibiae have their oblique groove 

 nearer the middle than in Monohammus, and unaccompanied by a 

 tubercle. The terminal joints of the S P^^P^ ^^^® ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^'™ ^^ 

 in Tympmiopalpus, but are much less dilated, and there is no other 

 resemblance between the two genera, except in those structural points 

 in which both agree with the Monohcimmincd. 



TeICHOLAMIA PLAGIA.TA, n. Sp. 

 Clothed with fine tawny-ochreous, the elytra with tawny-ashy, tomentum, the 

 head and thorax partly, the scape and elytra wholly, beset with remarkably long, 

 erect black hairs ; the elytra have a basal fascia, and on each side two lateral patches, 

 one larger about the middle, a second smaller near the apex, brownish-black. 



Long. 25 — 28 mm., $ ? . 

 Mt. Cameroons. 



BATOMENA, n. g. 

 Of broader and more depressed form than Monohammus, the sur- 

 face of the elytra armed with numerous briar-like spines arranged in 

 rows, most numerous and continuous on the sides, the middle-sutural 

 and posterior parts free. The head is very similar in form to Mono- 

 Timnmus, the forehead moderately long and plane, the lower lobe of 

 the eyes elongated, the antenniferous tubercles more elevated and 

 separated by a deeply impressed line, which extends from the occiput 

 to the epistome. The antennae in the ^ are nearly twice the length 

 of the body, the cicatrice of the scape enclosed by a sharp rim and 



S" hairy, joints 1—5 ciliated beneath. Sterna simple, legs rather 

 elongated ; middle tibiae with tubercle and groove near the middle. 



Batomei^a multispinis, n. sp. 

 Dark brown, clothed with lighter brown laid pubescence, which on the elytra 

 forms short vittse and spots : head and scape with scattered punctures : thorax trans- 

 verse, with very strong and acute lateral spine and deep transverse groove in front 

 and behind, the disc rather uneven, impunctate. Elytra sparingly punctured near 

 the base, each with five faint longitudinal costae, each armed with a row of thorn-like 

 spines, a few only (2 or 3) at the base of the Ist costa, the number increasing to 

 10—15 on the outermost costa j apex of the elytra rounded. 



Long. 34—38 mm., S ? • 

 Mt. Cameroons : alt. 7000 ft. 



MELANOPOLIA, n. g. 

 Moderately elongate and narrowed behind, interruptedly clothed 

 with fine laid pubescence. Head exserted, front broad and quadrate, 

 lower lobe of the eyes much broader than long ; antenniferous tuber- 



