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the elytra is clothed with a very dense covering of short buff 
yellow hairs, which at the very suture assume a whitish glaucous 
green tint. 
eneth, 31 mm: > elyti. 21 mm.; ‘breadth, 11 mim: 
One male found on November 9, 1894, at Budda, Upper 
Shebeli River, at 7,800 ft. (wet country). 
8. Rhaphidopsis guttata, Jord., sp. nov. 
& Black, spotted with primrose yellow, as follows: — 
Head with two rounded spots in front near the inner margin of 
each eye; an elongate spot upon the cheek, a minute one behind 
the eye, and two streaks, convergent anteriorly, upon the vertex. 
Pronotum on each side with a lateral and a dorso-lateral vitta, 
the latter interrupted in the middle. 
Elytra each with two dots in basal fourth close to the lateral edge, 
and a third minute one at the beginning of the apical third more 
removed from the margin of the elytron; a series of six dots upon 
the disc from base to apex, equally distant from one another, the 
third the largest and more transverse, the fourth the smallest, the 
fifth closer to the suture touching the sutural, impressed stria. 
Prosternum with a semi-interrupted vitta on each side; meso- 
sternum with two lateral dots; metasternum with two lateral 
streaks; four basalsegments of abdomen with a rather large lateral 
dot which does not reach the base of the respective segment. 
Head and thorax without obvious puncturation; lateral teeth 
of prothorax distinct. Elytron coarsely punctured, except towards 
the apex, which is almost smooth ; apex rounded. 
Length, 10 mm.; elytr., 7 mm.; breadth, 2} mm. 
One male between Aimola and Higo on March 25, 1895. 
CUBILIA, Jord., gen. nov. (Niphoniinarum),. 
dé. Cavity of middle coxa open; claws divergent; middle 
tibie without groove ; antennz eleven-jointed ; head retractile ; 
femora unarmed. Eyes divided; metasternum rather short; inter- 
coxal processus of mesosternum declivous. 
Front of head inclinate, almost ventral; anterior portion ab- 
ruptly and deeply impressed in the middle; the lateral edge of 
the cavity thus formed produced into an oblique lobe on each 
side, which partly cover the cavity and protrude beyond the 
