( COS ) 



Noficf'f! of nnr or little known Cictoniid.k : by Oliver E. 

 Jaxson, No. 7. 



H(Tmatovotiis hir/cu.'i, n, sp. 



$ Dull black; head, underside and legs pitchy-black, shining; 

 lateral margins of the thorax, the epimera above, some spots 

 on the metasternum and sides of the abdomen chalky-white; 

 pygidium pitchy-red and shining in the centre, with a large 

 white spot on each side. Head coarsely punctured, with long- 

 brownish pubescence at the base, clypeus Avidened in front, 

 the apical margin strongly reflexed, rounded and scarcely emar- 

 ginate. Thorax strongly and regularly rounded at the sides, 

 the base slightly produced, anterior margin with an elevated point 

 in the centre, somewhat coarsely punctured and with short erect 

 brownish hairs. Scutellum large, pimctured at the base. 

 Elytra deeply and rather coarsely punctured, the punctures very 

 close at the sides, the siiture and two curved carinas slightly 

 elevated and smooth. Pygidium finely strigose. Beneath 

 sparsely punctured and pubescent, mesosternal process short and 

 broad, abdomen strongly and broadly impressed in the centre, 

 anterior tibi« with a large apical spine and an obtuse lateral 

 angle. Length 17 mm. 



Lake Nyassa (Cotterell). 



Differs from //. Fritscliii, Kraatz, which I have also received 

 in the same collection, in coloration, its more strongly reflexed 

 clypeu.s and deeply impressed abdomen, 



Clinteina decora, n, sp. 



$ Above dull black ; head, pygidium, underside and legs 

 shining black ; thorax with two elongate almost confluent spots 

 on the lateral margins, and a transverse spot on each side at the 

 base near the posterior angles red ; elytra with five red spots on 

 each, the first in the centre and- close to the base, the second 

 near the suture just l)ehind the middle, two on the lateral 

 margin, also behind the middle, and one close to the apical 

 angle ; epimera with a red spot above ; an ochreous spot on each 



