1836.1 



195 



near the apex, caused by a strong flexure of the carina ; a structure 

 quite different from the dentiform projection in the same place, which 

 distinguishes the T. denticulatus, described by General Qucdenfeldt. 

 The thorax is very variable in outline. 



round at Mombasa {Mr. Wakefield), Taveita (J. Thomson), and 

 Mamboia (Last). 



Tefflus brevicostatus, Quedenfeldt, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1883, 

 p. 275, tab. iii, fig. 14. 



Usambara {Archdeacofi Fader). General Quedenfeldt's typical 

 example in the Berlin Museum came from the same district. 



Tefflus caeinatus, Klug, Peters' Reise, Zool., p. 161, t. 9, fig. 7. 



Mombasa {Mr. Wakefield). 



According to Quedenfeldt, who has examined King's type in the 

 Berlin Museum, this is nothing more than a black form of T. viola- 

 ceus, Klug. 



Tefflus yiolaceus, Klug, Peters' Eeise, Zool., p. 161, t. 9, fig. 8. 

 Var. pwyuripennis, Chaudoir {MS.). 



I have not seen the true violaceus from the mainland in the lati- 

 tude of Zanzibar, but it has been sent in great abundance and without 

 any admixture of T. carinatus or other variety, from Lake ISyassa. 

 It appears to be represented nearer the equator by the purple-coppery 

 var named T. purpuripennis, by Chaudoir. Usually this form is 

 rather smaller, more slender, and offers a much scantier punctuation 

 on the prosternal episterna than T. violaceus. My examples are from 

 Bagamoio and Usambara, near the coast. 200 miles in the interior a 

 larger and broader form, like the true violaceus, ?, is found, with 

 coarsely punctured anterior episterna. 



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



i, 29. 



Mpwapwa ; one example. i i^ 



A very distinct hairy species, with the sides of the thorax sharply 



sinuated Ir the base, and then straight to the perfectly rectangu ar 



hind angles. M. Oberthiir's specimens were from Mhonda, not far 



from Mpwapwa. 



TE.rL^s CTCHKOIBES, sp. n. In hoc g.ncre .raciJU.nus ; niger, nudus; 



capUe angusto poH oculos elongato, l.ri, .ertice con...o : ''-;«« J"J^^ 



rugatis : episternis anticis politis impunctatu. Long., 30 mm.^cT . 



