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lateraliter pone medium valde tuberculato, supra tuberculis 

 quatuor transversis instructo ; elytris punctatis, utrisque prope 

 basin fascicule distincto pilorum fuscorum ornatis ; antenuis quara 

 corpore paullo longioribus, griseis, subtus breviter setosis, 

 articulis S^-IO"™ basi pallidioribus, articulo 1° nigro-punctato. 

 Long. 20, lat. 9 mm. 



Hah. Somaliland {E, Lort Phillips) . 



Covered with pubescence, consisting cliieflj of short pale 

 grey or nearly white hairs mixed more or less with tawny 

 and dark brown hairs. On the front of the head, pronotum, 

 sterna, and a patch on each side of the elytra the pubescence 

 is mostly whitish and only slightly mixed with tawny hairs. 

 Prothorax furnished on each side with a large tubercle behind 

 the middle, and a small obtuse tubercle in front of the middle, 

 disk with four cariniform transverse tubercles. Elytra each 

 with a distinct tuft of dark brown hairs at a short distance 

 behind the base. 



Lahejia, gen. nov. {Eumolpinorum) . 



Clothed with pubescence. Eyes somewhat prominent, 

 with a very feeble sinuate emargination in front. Inner 

 margins of antennary condyles slightly raised, so that the 

 front of the head appears bounded by a short ridge on each 

 side. Epistome scarcely visible. Prothorax without sharp 

 lateral margins, slightly rounded at the sides and somewhat 

 narrowed towards the base ; its greatest width about equal to 

 its median length ; anterior border of prosternum concave ; 

 intercoxal laminge of pro- and mesosterna rather narrow. 

 Femora thickened below the middle of their length ; tibiae 

 entire ; tarsi rather slender, with first joint of each about as 

 long as the two following joints together ; claws bifid. An- 

 tennse about half as long as body ; first joint short, oval, 

 second nodular, third slender, nearly three times as long as 

 second ; seventh to tenth joints somewhat flattened and sub- 

 triangular in shape. 



Lahejia cinerascenSj sp. n. 



Piceo-nigra, subnitida, griseo sparse pubeseens ; capita antice et 

 subtus testaceo ; pedibus antennisque flavescentibus, his articulis 

 quinque apicalibus iufuscatis. 



Long. 3-3|, lat. 1| mm. 



Hah. Lahej ( Yerhury) . , 



Pitchy black, veiled by a sparse grey pubescence. Head 



