208 AFRICAN CARABIDAE. 



Junk River, Liberia (Stampfli). — Several examples of 

 both sexes. 



Megalonychus explanatus, uov. spec. 



.1/. platydero (Chaud.) affinis. Cyanescenti-niger politus, 

 partibus oris , scapo pedibusque rufo-testaceis : capite rela- 

 tive parvo , impunctato , foveis frontalibus vix impressis: 

 tborace niagno , subcirculari , minute punctulato disco lsevi , 

 angulis posticis omnino rotundatis anticis obtusis, lateribus 

 late explanato-reflexis rufo-translucentibus, marginibus an- 

 ticis et posticis late sinuatis : elytris thorace paullo latiori- 

 bus , humeris rotundatis , apice sinuatis angulo suturali recto, 

 exarato-striatis striis fundo crenulato-punctulatis , intersti- 

 tiis parum convexis 3io bipunctato ; margin e laterali aequa- 

 liter explanato. — Long. 11 millim. cT , 9- 



Junk River, Liberia (Stampfli). — A few examples of 

 both sexes. 



London, June 1889. 



Notes; from the Ijeycten Museum , Vol. XI. 



