18 [June. 



spot adjoining it towards the apex, dark brown, tlie larger spot enclosing a small 

 ochreous spot adjoining the margin ; body underneath clothed with thin and fine 

 tawny tomentum. Head elongated behind the eyes, impunctate like the thorax : 

 elytra gradually attenuated, apex very obtusely truncated, somewhat thickly punc- 

 tulated orer their basal half. Legs elongated, fore-legs in the S greatly so, and 

 with a tubercle at the commencement of the oblique tibial groove ; tubercle and 

 groove of the intermediate tibiae below the middle. Long. 22 mm., S ? • 



Mt. Cameroons. 



Forms with the following, and with M. ruspafor (F.), irrorator 

 (Chevr.), and other species a distinct section of the genus. The pre- 

 sent species much resembles the Indo Malayan genus Epepeotes, but 

 wants the tuberculated mesosternum. 



MONOHAMMUS X-FULVUM, 71. Sp, 

 Clothed with extremely fine, rather silky, brown tomentum, the vertex and 

 thorax with three continuous tawny-buff lines, the elytra, with a large, common, 

 X-shaped figure of the same colour, the upper branches of which reach the shoulders, 

 and the lower (much shorter) approach the lateral margin near the apex, the four 

 branches meeting at the suture and for some distance forming a common sutural 

 vitta ; the pale sutural border continues posteriorly to the apex, and there is a narrow 

 pale transverse streak in the middle of each elytron towards the margin. The head 

 and thorax impunctate, except a few large punctures on the stout lateral tubercles, 

 the elytra are punctulate, rather widely; and in some places subseriate, at the base 

 asperate, throughout ; the apex obtusely truncated. Long. 22 — 28 mm., $ . 



Kiver Ogowe ; G-aboon ; Landana (Loango) ; Angola. 



This well-marked species does not appear to have been described 

 by any of the authors who have described Longicornia from the 

 Gaboon and Angola. 



11, Carleton Road, Tufnell Park : 

 May, 1884. 



AtemeJes paradoxus, Sfc, in the Isle of Wight. — While collecting at Sandown 

 on April 12th, I noticed a small black ant with something dark in its mouth, which 

 looked like the half of some Hemipterous insect ; I tried to make the ant drop the 

 object, but it held to it with great pertinacity, and it was only with considerable 

 difficulty that it was induced to relinquish it : the object then uncurled itself, and 

 turned out to be a fine specimen of Atemeles paradoxus, two or three times as large 

 as the ant which was carrying it. In the same place I found three specimens of 

 Trichonyx Maerkelit and some other Scydmcenidce. 



The bitter east winds rendered collecting almost useless. At Ventnor I found 

 Bryaxis Waterhousei, Lithocharis maritima, and some of the other usual beetles, 

 but all very sparingly ; in one sheltered place on the cliffs Ceuthorhynchus cyani- 

 pennis might be found in some abundance, and a few Thyamis dorsalis ; Molytes 

 coronatus occurred near Brading. On the whole, I never found the Isle of Wight 

 so unproductive. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : May 8th, 188-4. 



