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Poecilomorpha modesta. n. sp. 
Black, opaque, thorax with some silvery pubescence at the 
sides and middle, finely rugose, elytra dark brownish, rugosely 
punctured, the suture clothed with silvery pubescence ; underside 
closely pubescent. 
Length 3 lines. 
_ Head finely rugose throughout, black, eyes large, deeply not- 
ched, antenuæ very short, scarcely extending to the base of the 
thorax, black, the fourth and the following joints very strongly 
widened and flattened ; thorax scarcely longer than broad, subey- 
lindrical, narrowed in front, sculptured like the head, the middle 
of the disc and the sides with a narrow band of silvery-white 
hairs; scutellum clothed entirely with white pubescence; elytra 
nearly parallel, slightly wider at the base than the thorax and 
sculptured like the latter, of a dark velvety brown colour, the 
suture from the middle to the apex with a stripe of white pubes- 
“cence, the apex of each elytron truncately shaped, pygidium with 
a few whitish hairs, undérside black, densély clothed with 
white pubescence, the posterior femora obsoletely stained with 
rufous at their outer side. 
Hab. Gaboon (my collection). 
Tonly possess a single spécimen of this species, which may 
be known by the sombre coloration of its upper surface; the 
pubescence or Stripes of the thorax may probably more developed 
in other specimens when in a fresh condition. 
Myrcinoides n. gen. (Halticinæ). 
‘Broadly ovate, convex, eyes elongate, antenuæ robust, longer 
than the body in the male, shorter in the female, the basal joints 
thickened, the apical ones tapering; thorax transverse, three 
times broader than long, the sides nearly straight, the dise scar- 
cely widened, with an obsolete perpendicular groove at the base; 
ielytra broader than the thorax, convex, irregularly punctured, 
their ‘epipleuræ very broad, continued to the apex, legs robust, 
the iposterior femora scarcely thicker than thé others, the tibiæ 
marmed, the frst joint of the posterior tarsi about one half 
longer than the following joint, claws appendiculate; prosternum 
“much donger than broad, very distinct, mésosternum narrowly 
transverse, concave, the antérior coxal cavities closed. 
The insect, for which the present genus ïs proposed, îs ome of 
those remarkable transitionary) forms, which it is difficult to find 
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