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TABOEA, n. gen. 



Mentum ovate laterally for two-thirds of the length, constricted 

 and triangularly ampliated thence to the apex, where it is broadly 

 and somewhat deeply emarginate in the centre, the outer angles 

 are slightly rounded ; the palpi are as in Popillia, but the maxillaj 

 have at the upper end two long, falcate teeth, the outer one of which 

 is very deeply bifid, and three other equally sharp, but horizontal at 

 the base of the galea. The presence and the disposition of these teeth 

 are the distinctive characters separating this genus from Gnatholahis, 

 which has the clypeus and the prothorax similarly shaped and 

 clothed also with long, appressed hairs. Kraatz (Deutsch. Entom. 

 Zeit., 1892, p. 390), included the only species known among 

 Gnatlwlabis, having not examined the mouth parts. Dr. Ohaus 

 includes it in Nannopopilia, Kolb. (Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1897, p. 354), 

 but the shape, the disposition, and number of the teeth of the maxillae 

 are different in N. niinnscula, the only other species belonging to 

 Nannopopilia, and so is the shape of the clypeus. 



Tabora ludificaxs, Ancey., 

 Natural. Sicilian, ii., 1883, p. 96. 

 Shining, head and prothorax brassy green ; elytra flavous with an 

 elongato-quadrate patch under the scutellum, the suture and a broad 

 outer marginal ])and bottle-green or very nearly black ; under side 

 black, antenna) and legs brownish red ; cl}-peus very slightly Ijroader 

 than long, straight laterally, nearly sub-parallel, truncate at the tip 

 with the outer angles very little rounded, and the anterior margin 

 reflexed, it is, like the head, finely rugose and plicate transversely ; 

 prothorax a little longer than Inroad, attenuated laterally in the 

 anterior part for about one-third of the length, slightly emarginate 

 thence to the outer angle which is sharp, marginate all round, 

 the median part of the base is slightly sinuate, it is conspicuously 

 plicate transversely with the folds very closely set, and is clothed 

 with long, dense, decumbent yellowish hairs ; scutellum broadly 

 ogival, transversely pHcate ; elytra not broader in the median part 

 than at the base, but plainly emarginate laterally between these two 

 parts, not much narrowed from the median to the posterior part, 

 plane in the anterior, but somewhat convex at about the median, 

 deeply and regularly punctato-striate with the intervals convex, 

 glabrous except for a few short hairs along the outer margin in the 

 anterior part ; propygidium partly uncovered, glabrous, pygidium a 

 little convex, scabroso-punctate but completely covered with 

 flavescent, very dense appressed hairs ; all the segments of the 



