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With the basal external angle (above the shoulders) acute; each has nine punctured 

 stn., wlueh do not extend quite to the extremity, becoming confluent befor!they re 

 obhterated ; at the base next the suture .s a sHghtly deternuned short stria of punctures 

 The antenor femora are curved ; the inner edge is channeled, and the front margn of 

 th, hannel is denticulated. The tibiae are rather slender, and much curved in the 

 nndle, where they are dent.culated within; near the base within they e ngulal 

 produced, and from the middle to the tip on the outs.de they are dHated nd channde ' 

 he mner angle of the t,p forms a hook, which is externally pubescent. The m ddk 

 femora are ess denticulated than either the anterior or posterior pair ; the middle tibt 

 are nearly stra,g^.t, but are suddenly d.lated withm and denticulated b yond te middle 

 he nner angle forming an acute mcurved point ; the hind t.bi. are much curvT e 

 nine, edge being strongly toothed ; the lower portion of this edge is gradually dt ed 

 vv.thm and very rough, its margin being also denticulated ; the ta'rsi are near^of ua 

 length, the penultimate joint being evidently longer than the preceding; the body be 

 neath IS black, fine y punctured, and slightly clothed with short aureous pubescence ■ 

 the third segment of the abdomen has a transverse carina near the hinder margm ' 

 P S.-The Rev. F. W. Hope has recently obtained another specimen from Ashantee 

 which IS on y 1 9 lines long, and of a rather more slender appearance, with a smal er had 

 and punctato-striate elytra ; the feet, however, are anuedf as in the type of re species 



Division 2.-Clypeusantice emarginatus, margins antico hand tuberculato. Mandibul^ 

 mulhdentatce. Maxillarum lobus internus, apice corneo integro Pro- 

 thorax subquadratus, magis transversus. Elytra humeris rotundatis. 

 {Iphius, Dej. Cat. sine descr.) 



Species 2. Prioscelis (Iphius) serrata. 



Tab. XIV. Fig. 5. 



Tencbrio serratus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. i. 11 1. 4 ; Oliv. Ins. 57 t 1 f. 1 



The Fabrician description, derived from a specimen from Sierra Leone in the Bank 



s.an cabinet is as follows :-■■ T. glaber ater; elytris striatis, tibiis po's "ci efraS" 



I^r TiSZ't^^' '"""^^"'°- ^'°^^^ "^^^"^- '-'- atri, femoribus c r^u: 

 latis. 1 ibias posticffi incurvae, elevates • , intus serrate " 



are^minre^rh::' T"^''^^'' t'T'' ''' ''''''' ^' *'^ ^-"P' -^ ^^^ characters 

 r^lf H \ A r. '™ "P '^' ^°"°^^"S description from the Banksian specimen 

 It elf, described by Fabricius. The insect is 16 lines long, the elytra being 91 Ion!" nd 

 4. wide and the prothorax 3^ long. The thorax is subquadrate'and marg ne S has 

 Uiehnder angles narrowed off; the disc is without any large impressed punc ures 



dilated at the tip, especially on the under part of the outer edge, which forms a strong 



I apprehend the word elevate is a misprint for clavala. 

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