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sides. Femora not clavate ; posterior one reaching to base of foartli abdomiual 

 segment. 



Length, IT mm. ; elytra, 12 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



Hab. German East Africa. 



One ? , without more precise locality. 



Oxycaula gen. nov. 



Resembling Hj/pomfwes, but anterior coxal cavity open. Scape of antenna a 

 little shorter than third segment, with a prominent, sharp, transverse, apical keel ; 

 the following segments somewhat incrassate at tip as in Paroetne ; third and fonrth 

 compressed, thicker than the following, third half as long again as fourth, a little 

 shorter than fifth, all fringed beneath, especially the pro.ximal ones. Prothorax 

 without side-spine, tnbereulate above. Elytra flattened, tnbercnlose, widened just 

 before apex. Anterior coxal cavity not strongly angulate laterally, open behind ; 

 prosternal process narrow, reaching to hinder side of coxa ; mesosternal process 

 as wide in middle as the fonrth aiitennal segment, slightly convex, sulcate. 

 Femora clavate. 



Type : 0. Xierruca spec. nov. 



4. Oxycaula verruca spec. nov. 



Glossy ; deep chestnut ; antenna, legs and abdomen very pale bnff-yellow ; 

 n small spot on disc of elytrnm in middle, a larger one at outer margin in front 

 of apical dilatation, rounded on discal side, and a triangular spot occupying apex, 

 all a little paler than legs. 



Head punctate, the pnnctnration dense only laterally on occipnt ; frons 

 snbvertical ; antennal tubercles rather jirominent, a short and shallow sulcus 

 between them ; distance between upper lobes of eyes equal to diameter of scape before 

 apex. Antenna one-fourth longer than the body ; scape longitudinally imiiressedl 

 at base, dispersedly punctured. Prothorax longer than broad, truncate at base, 

 slightly widened frontad above at apex, feebly dilated at sides behind apex and 

 more in middle, coarsely and rather densely punctured all over ; disc with an 

 elevate mesial line from near apex to basal constriction, the line raised into an 

 elongate tubercle behind, at each side of mesial line before middle a high conical 

 tubercle fpale at tip), and an elongate callosity before basal constriction. Scntellum 

 longer than broad, rounded, grey. Elytra truncate at base, densely punctured in 

 basal half, the punctures becoming scarce in apical half, with numerous, dispersed, 

 subseriate callosities; straight in basal fonrth, then widening; outer margin very 

 oblique tjehind subapical dilatation ; tip rounded. Underside rather densely and 

 coarsely punctured ; middle of first abdominal segment, greater portion of second, 

 and the entire following segments, with few or no punctures. Femora smooth. 



Length, 14 mm. ; elytra, 10 ram. ; breadth (shoulder), 3i mm. ; (before apex), 

 5 mm. 



Ihih. Uenito, French (longo. 

 One specimen, probably a ? . 



Paroeme (1886) Auriv. 

 i ?. Antennal segments 3 to .5 incrassate at tip, to 1 1 sulcate, dentate at 

 end. Prosternal jirocess reaching hinder side of coxae, mesosternal one broad : 

 anterior coxal cavity open. 



