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laterihus linea impressa simpUce et intra lineam punctis setiferis 4 late 

 separatis : elytris prope hasin solum citiusque angustatis pimctato-sulcatis, 

 inter stitiis Icevihus. $. Tarsi antici sicut in Y).vi).\}X\A^QXQ)\ tihice intermedice 

 versus apiceni dilatatm et apice spinosce. Long., 7^ mm. 



Angola {Monfeiro). 



Not mucli larger than the Natal D. eleninus (Chaud. = natali- 

 cus, Westw.), from which it differs inter alia in the sculpture of the 

 elytra, D. eheninus having only a sutural and marginal sulcus, and the 

 disc quite smooth. The ventral segments are very convex, and their 

 articulation marked by a deep sulcus, as in D. eheninus and D. multi- 

 porus. 



DisPHJ^Eicus Lastii, sp. n. Longius ovatus, nigerrimus, p)al'pis anten- 

 nis extus tarsisque obscure rufescentihus : oculis minus prominentibus : thorace 

 subquadrato-ovato, hasi angustissime constricto ; laterihus marginatis et linea 

 impressa medio unipunctata : elytris longius ovatis prope basin curvatim an- 

 gustatis, sulco lato sutural i punctato {basin haud attingenti) fovea juxta hasin, 

 striisque punctatis duahus marginalihus {interiori versus apicem, sulcata), 

 disco Icevi. <? . Tarsi antici articulis 4 maxime dilatatis. TihicB anticce 

 apice extus spina valida exstanti armatce ; intermedice apice dilatatce. 



Long. 12 — 14 7nm., S . 



Mamboia {Mr. Last) ; four examples, all males. 



Sub-fam. PAXAG^LNu^. 



Tefflus Megeelei, Fab. — A good structural character, dis- 

 tinguishing this from the allied large species, has been recently 

 discovered by Quedenfeldt, viz., the straight carina of the outer edge 

 of the anterior tibia? in both sexes, from the base to the long and out- 

 wardly-directed apical spine. This is shown in numerous examples 

 found in East Africa, at Mamboia, and Mpwapwa, which differ from 

 Senegal and Gruinea examples of T. Ilegerlei only in the narrower 

 head and neck, and correspondingly narrow thorax (between the 

 anterior angles) and more sinuated front margin. In these features 

 they approach the true T. Delegorquei, from South-East Africa, which 

 is considered by Quedenfeldt, I think unnecessarily, as a var. of T. 

 Megerlei. 



Tefflus Hacquaedi, Chaudoir, in Oberthiir's Coleopt. Novitates, 

 i, 29, This appears to be the commonest of the large black species of 

 Terffius in Eastern Equatorial Africa. It has the heavy, robust form, 

 long antennae, and broadish head and neck of T. Megerlei., but the 

 finer rugose-punctate thorax of T. Delegorguei, Its best distinguish- 

 ing character, however, is the distinct dilatation of the anterior tibia) 



