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African Species of Krotylide. 145 
sentello lato; elytris subtiliter seriato-punctatis; pedibus gra- 
cilibus. 
Long. 21 mm.; lat. max. 8 mm. 
Urrrr Conco: Kasongo to Stanley Falls. 
A single specimen was found by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston. 
This, the first discovered African species of the genus, is 
unlike any other. It is very smooth above, but not shining, 
and the pale markings are of a bright yellow colour, quite 
different from the orange and red of the Oriental species. 
It is long and narrow, with slender legs, not very strongly 
_ dilated tarsi,and delicate but not long antenne, with the 
club very small. The pale skoulder-patch is almost square 
in shape, with a round black spot in the centre ; the post- 
median lunule is remote from it and curves forward parallel 
to, but at a distance from, the suture ; and the apical mark 
is V-shaped, with its outer limb produced forward until it 
almost touches the postmedian one. 
Micrencaustes spinipes, sp. n. 
Flava, capite, pronoti medio, scutello, elytrorum marginibus, 
abdomine (medio excepto), pedibus antennisque rufis, pronoti 
maculis 5, elytrorum plagis duabus communibus, punctis 3 
basalibus, una laterali ante medium posita unaque ante-apicali 
majori nigris; modice elongata, parum nitida, capite parce 
punctato, clypeo autem crebre et fortiter, pronoto minute et 
parce, basin versus fortius punctato; elytris leviter striato- 
punctatis; pedibus validis, tibiis omnibus apice extus acute 
spinosis; antennarum clava parva. 
Long. 19 mm.; lat. max. 7°5 mm. 
Beteran Coneo: Bakuba Country. 
The single specimen in the British Museum was found by 
Mr. T. A. Joyce. 
This also is like no other species yet known. The ground- 
colour is rust-red, with the sides of the pronotum and the 
elytra bright yellow edged with red, and the sternum, the 
middle of the abdomen, and rather complicated markings 
on the upper surface black. The black markings consist of 
an oblique inner dumb-bell shaped bar and outer spot on each 
side of the pronotum, and, upon the elytra, three small basal — 
spots on each (the two outer ones elongate), a common trans- 
verse patch just behind the scutellum and another larger and 
broader one behind the former, a small lateral spot between 
the two large patches, and a larger spot near the apex of each 
elytron. 
The insect is moderately elongate, smooth and shining, 
