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Chreostes Oberthurii. 



C. robustus, fuscus, pube grisea dense tectus ; elytris, basi excepfca* 

 impunctatis, in medio vitta obliqua pallide brunnea signatis, 

 humeris paulo productis, regione humerali minus pubescente eb 

 grosse punctata. Long. 14 lin. 



Hah. Zanzibar. 



Facies and characters mostly as in C. ephippiatus, but with 

 a difterent pattern on the elytra, and further differentiated by 

 a large triangular and nearly naked patch, very coarsely 

 punctured, on the shoulder, the rest of the elytra impunctate 

 except a few slight punctures by the scutellum ; the oblique 

 stripe commences near the suture, and is continued outwards 

 and downwards nearly to the margin. The eyes in this 

 genus are small, not nearly reaching to the mouth, as in its 

 ally Phryneta. 



Named after M. E.end Oberthlir, of Rennes, to whom I am 

 indebted for this and many other Coleoptera. 



Sympiodes. 



Caput breve, antice transversum ; tuherculis antennlferis fere obso- 

 letis. Antennae, basi distantes; scapus brevis, ovalis, articulis 

 3-10 cylindricis. Ocull miaores, reniformes, grosse granulati. 

 Prothorax transversus, lateribus rotundatis. Elytra prothorace 

 multo latiora, modice convexa. Pedes breves, validi ; femora 

 inermes ; tibioi compresste, iutermedi^e extus sinuatse ; tarsi lati ; 

 unyuiculi approximati. Mesosternum subquadratum. 



Although with a different facies, this genus agrees in most 

 of its characters — as, indeed, may be said of some otliers — 

 with Enaretta ; the tibiffi, however, are shorter and greatly 

 compressed, the claws approximate, the mesosternum more 

 nearly quadrate, and the joints of the antennae from the third 

 to the tenth are cylindrical — that is, not narrower towards the 

 base. The eye-facets are unusually few. 



Sympiodes varius. 



S. brevis, pube rufo-brunnea griseo-varia vestitus ; prothorace in 

 medio paulo transversim elevato ; elytris apicem versus angusti- 

 oribus, postice tuberculis sex munitis, utrinque ad marginem 

 macula I'usca notatis. Long. 2g lin. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay. 



Short and somewhat broad, covered above with a reddish- 

 brown pubescence, varied with pale greyish ; head slightly 

 concave between the eyes ; antennas much shorter than the 



