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Slclhodesvia Slracliaii'/, Ilo])e. 



Totuni corpus fere nigniin, inaiginibus externis nibris. Elytiis 

 atris, postice albis punctis insignitiy, apicibiisque rubris. 

 Corpus infra lubro-piceuin, segincntis abdominis duplice 

 serie macularum notatis. 



Long. lin. 123, lat. lin. 6. 



Tlie above remarkable insect is named in honour of P. S. 

 Stracban, Esq., one of the most indefatigable entomologists that 

 ever visited Sierra Leone. As I have formed it into a genus I 

 may, perbaps, be allowed to dilate more fully in English details 

 than I have in the Latin. 



Clypeus elongate, smootii, and deeply emarginate in front. 

 Thorax very convex, lateral margins rufous. Scutellum not 

 visible, the base of the thorax being produced into a projecting 

 lobe, as in Gyinnetls. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, with 

 indistinct elevated ridges, and five small yellowish white spots 

 near the apex, which is rufous. Body beneath pitchy red. Sternum 

 large, projecting. The abdomen is marked with yellowish white 

 spots ; the upper surface of this fine insect of rich black velvet. 

 hi size and form it resembles Lomaplera, while in its large epimera 

 it approaches Celon'ia, and, as above noticed, the basal lobe of the 

 thorax connects it with Gyvinclis ; its superficies being like the 

 South American species named Munnorinn by Mr. Kirby. 



