THREE NEW BEETLES FROM THE GOLD COAST, ETC. 



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each elytron is a short longitudinal fascia of pale ocliraceous hair, and 

 from the centre to apex are small irregular dots of the same colour ; 

 the apices of the elytra are fringed with black hair. The body beneath 

 and the legs and tarsi are black, with pale ocliraceous hairs. Long. 

 8 lines, max. lat. 3 lines. 



Hab. Angola. 



Prosopocera biplagiata, sp. n. (fig. 3). 

 Shining brown, densely covered with pale brown pubescence. The 

 pronotum is roughly sculptured, and has a tooth on each side, and the 



posterior margin transversely striated. The scutellum is rounded, 

 tongue-shaped. The head, legs, and antennas are the same brown 

 colour; the latter are longer than the body ; the basal joint stoutest, 

 and twice as long as the head, rather rougher than the second joint, 

 which is nearly twice as long as the first ; the third joint is not quite 

 as long as second joint, and rather longer than the fourth joint; the 

 remaining joints are of equal length. The elytra are rather coarsely 

 punctured, and densely shortly pilose ; the humeral angles are 

 slightly raised, and near them the basal area is blackly tuberculate ; 

 an irregular triangular white spot about the centre, broader at the 

 lateral margin, which it does not quite touch, and its apex reaching to 



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