Species of V > urcxi\iomd& from Africa. 387 



transversely impressed near the apex, the posterior portion 

 subquadrate, with a slight lateral projection just behind the 

 constriction ; the upper surface uneven, granulate, with a 

 very shallow broad median longitudinal impression, and 

 a transverse impression behind the lateral prominence on 

 each side ; the apical margin truncate dorsally, the base 

 gently arcuate. Elytra short oblong, the basal margin 

 jointly sinuate, the shoulders roundly prominent, the sides 

 subparallel from there to beyond the middle and strongly 

 compressed inferiorly at the apex ; the upper surface with 

 fine shallow stria}, the punctures in which are not visible 

 through the scaling ; the alternate intervals slightly more 

 raised than the others, and in the basal third a very shallow 

 oblique impression running from the shoulder to stria 1, 

 the suture being evenly raised throughout; on interval 3 

 there is a low elevation behind the middle and another just 

 behind it at the top of the declivity, and also a prominence 

 on interval 5 on the declivity. Leys densely clothed with 

 brown scaling ; the anterior pairs of tibiae with a stout 

 spine-like tooth in the middle and a much smaller tooth 

 midway between this and tlie apex, each tooth bearing a 

 stout seta ; the hind tibite merely angulate in the middle ; 

 the tarsi short and not specially slender, joint 3 not 

 emarginate and about as long and broad as 1, joint 2 much 

 shorter but scarcely narrower. 



Lenyth 2'2 mm., breadth I mm. 



Ivory Coast : Dimbokro (type). Fkench Congo: Fort 

 Crampel. 



Described from two specimens kindly submitted to me by 

 M. A. Hustache. 



Differing from all the previously described African species 

 of the genus in the spine-like tooth on the tibiae. In my 

 notes on the African Bayous (Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1906, 

 pp. 9.39-940), I inadvertently omitted any reference to 

 B. ni/oticus, Auriv. (Swedish Zool. Exp. Egypt, no. 10 a, 

 p. 16, 1905), with which I am not acquainted. 



Subfamily Anthonominm. 



Genus Ancylocnemis, nov. 



Head globular, well sunk in the thorax ; eyes gently 

 convex, not raised above the outline of the head, entirely 

 frontal in position, very narrowly separated and rather 

 coarsely facetted. Rostrum elongate, subcylindrical, de- 

 flected, and gently curved ; the apical margin truncate, with 



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