XESTUS. 99 



tlie process is brotid and emarginate; anteiina3 very sliort, third 

 joint elongate equal to the three following. Eyes linely granu- 

 Lited, first ventral segment with a raised line as in Coccinella, 

 following the movement of the coxa. 



Palseolybas andrese,* sp. n. 



Bre\dter ovatus, valde convexus, rufiis ; ca})ite thoraceque 

 crebre punctatus, hoc transverso, luteribus rotnndatis, angulis 

 posticis obtusia, lateribus marginatis, basi in medio lobato; elytris 

 tcnue punctato-striatia, interstitiis S})arse pnnctulatis, lateribns 

 marginatis, callo humerali })rominente, fascia basali (extern(3 

 latiore) punctisque 2 transverse positis pone medium nigris; corpore 

 su])ijus punctato (prosterno excepto), elytrorum epipleuris con- 

 cavis. L. 4 lin. 



Old Calabar (Murray). 



Palaeolybas humeralis,* sp. n. 



P. andrece similliinus, sed minor, totiis rufus (puncto humerali 

 nigro), minus crebre punctatus, tibiisque minus fortiter dilatatis. 

 L. 3 lin. 



Old Calabar (Murray). 



PalsDolybas mgripennis, sp. n. 



P. andrem proximus, sed paulo minor, elytris totis nigris, 

 thorace convexiore, nitidiore, parcius punctato. L. 3^ lin. 



My specimen is marked ''India," but there is no doubt it is a 

 W. African insect and not impossibly identical with the 2 previous 

 species. 



PaloBolybas coccinelloidesj sp. n. 



Subhemisphericus, hiete sanguineo-rufus, capite thoraceque 

 crebre punctatis, hoc convexo lateribus mai'ginatis subrectis; 

 elytris punctato-striatis interstitiis sul)tiliter punctulatis, nigris, 

 macula sat magna discoidali rufa (paulo ante medium positii). 

 L. 2] lin. 



Old Calabar (Murray), Natal. 



Xestus. 



Woll Cat Can. Col 420 {t>fp. tliroscoid(^s, Woll.). 



Xestus throscoides."^ 



Xestus throscoides, Woll. Cat. Can. Col. 421. 

 — , Bedel, Abe'dle, v. 43. 



Teneriffe. 



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