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ferent from any specimens of B. fallaciosa, with which in 

 every other respect they agree. The general colour is brassy 

 brown, a colour common in Sphenoptera (e. g. S. ?'ouca) but 

 not in Belionota. The hind angles of the pronotum are 

 obscure violet. The abdomen is obscure steel-blue, with the 

 sides and a spot in the middle of each segment coppery, the 

 sides in some examples being reddish coppery. 



Cleridse. 



Tenerus Moorei, sp. n. 



Aurantiacus, nitidus; thorace maculis duabus, elytris fasciis duabus 



latis, antennis, tibiis tarsisque nigris. 

 Long. 5 lin. 

 Var. Elytris nigris. 

 Long. 3 lin. 



This species very much resembles the African T. variabilis, 

 but it is more strongly punctured. Thorax very slightly 

 transversely impressed before the middle, with an elongate 

 smooth tubercle at the base, on each side of which is a dis- 

 tinct impression ; in front there are two rather large black 

 spots. Elytra with a rather broad blue-black fascia at the 

 base, and a rather broader one just before the apex, both in- 

 terrupted by the suture, and not quite reaching the margin. 

 The knees, tibiae, and tarsi are black. 



A small specimen, which appears to me to be only a variety 

 of this species, has the two black spots on the thorax united 

 into one large spot, but there are traces of a red line in its 

 middle. The elytra are black, but a little red may be traced 

 at the extreme apex and in the middle of the lateral margin. 



Cioidae. 



Minthea rugicollis, Walker. 



I have just compared the types of Ditoma rugicollis, 

 Walker (1858), and Minthea similata, Pascoe (1863), and 

 they appear to me to be the same species. Both these authors 

 place this insect in the Colydiidae. It is, I think, un- 

 doubtedly allied to Lyctus — in fact, scarcely separable from 

 that genus. 



Cherostus, gen. nov. 



Head when at rest concealed from above by the prothorax. 

 Eyes slightly reniform, coarsely granular. Antenna? eleven- 

 jointed, the basal joint moderately large, the second irregularly 

 globose, the third narrower; the following joints gradually 

 becoming wider, the ninth and tenth very transverse, the 

 eleventh broader than long, rounded at the apex. Mentum 



