428 Mr. G. J. Arrow on the 



the antenna is three-jointed and short, the terminal joint not 

 longer than it is broad. It is an allied species to A.jucundns, 

 Paring., but more compact and convex, more closely pubes- 

 cent, without markings on the pronotum and with quite 

 peculiar detached round spots on the elytra. 



Attagenus nigripennis, sp. n. 



Niger, pedibus et antennis rufescentibus, harum clava nigra, pro- 

 noto, corpore subtus pedibusque fulvo-vestitis, elytris minutiua 

 et baud perspicue pubescentibus ; ovalis, modice elongatus, dense, 

 fortiter et distincte punctatus, prouoto postice valde lobato, 

 antennarum clava modice elongata, articulo ultimo foeminae 

 parvo, maris longitudine ad duos prsecedentes aequali. 



Long. 3-3-5 mm. 



Hah. Gold Coast : Aburi. 



A specimen of each sex was taken by Mr. W. H. Patterson. 



The common Attagenus piceus, Oliv., is found in Europe, 

 Asia, and America, but has not so far been brought from any 

 part of Africa. The new species closely resembles it, but the 

 puncturation of tlie upper surface is rather stronger and more 

 distinct, and the hairs clothing the pronotum are long and 

 bright yellow in colour. The basal lobe of the pronotum is 

 much more produced, and the club of the antenna is black in 

 both sexes (it is red in tlie female of A. piceus) and has a 

 much shorter terminal joint in the male. In the female the 

 l:\st joint is smaller than either of the two preceding it. 



Attagenus hlrmanicus, sp. n. 



Niger, sed fiavo-pubescens, pedibus aatennisque rufis ; elongato- 

 ovalis, parum convexus, antennarum clava triarticulata, articulia 

 subaequalibus, maris laxius connexis. 



Long. 2-3"5 mm. 



Hah. Upper Burma {Gray) ; Tharrawaddy {G. Q. 

 Corbett) . 



Presented by Mr. H. E. Andrewes. 



This closely resembles the widely distributed A. piceus^ 

 Oliv., but is smaller on the whole, and the hair with which 

 it is clothed is pale yellow both alaove and beneath. The 

 posterior lobe of the pronotum is much stronger and the 

 scutellum therefore less exposed. The club of the antenna is 

 quite different, the three joints composing it being nearly 

 equal in both sexes and much more loosely articulated in the 

 njale, in which the two basal ones are a little longer than 



