( 155 ) 



about twice as wide vertically as cheek ; upper lobes widely separate, the distance 



of eye from mesial sulcus being equal to the diameter of the scape before middle. 

 Side-spine of the broad prothorax large : two black, rounded, very obtuse tubercles 

 on disc behind subapical sulcus ; dispersed punctures and some granules above and 

 below, no punctures or granules between the two dorsal tubercles. Scutellum 

 truncate-rotnndate. Elytra flattened, shaped as in the preceding species, granulosa 

 at base, especially at the prominent shoulders and the basal, crest-like tubercle ; 

 puncturatiou very coarse in basal half behind shoulder, finer towards suture 

 and apex 



Length, 17 mm. ; elytra, 12 mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. 



Hab. Cameroons. 



One ?. 



Latisternum (1894) Jord., Nov. Zool. i. p. 231 (type : piilckrum). 



I proposed this generic name for a species of which I knew at that time only a 

 mutilated ? , erroneously considering it to be a close ally of Acmocera. On receipt 

 of perfect specimens (from Mons. H. Donckier) 1 became at once aware of the close 

 relationship of Latisternum with Lasiopezus and Annjlonotu.s. The essential 

 distinguishing characters of Latister'tium are as follows : — 



Head very broad. -Eye small, divided. Autennal tubercles very short, widely 

 separate ; scape elongate, slender ; segments 3 to 5 or 6 incrassate at tip, more or 

 less curved. Pronotal side-spine large, horizontal. Elytra narrowing apicad. 

 Mesosternal process broad. Legs long, hiudfemur reaching at least to end of 

 elytra. 



Here belong, besides the type species and the insect described below, Lasiopezus 

 onca (1882) Qned., Bei-l. Ent. Zeit. p.;g40, and Lasiopezus aihbiguus (1900) Kolbe, 

 ihid. p. 3U6. 



Latisternum pulchrum (1804) Jord., I.e. (Loanda). 



We have from Benito, French Congo, two pairs of this species, which agree 

 well with the type specimen. The antennal segment 3 is much longer than 4, and 

 this much longer than 5 ; 3 to fl are incrassate at tip, 4 and 5 strongly (c?) or 

 moderately (?) curved. The legs are much prolonged in the c?, the anterior femur 

 of our larger c? being longer than the elytra; the first segment of the foretarsus has 

 no long fringe, and is as long as the other segments together in this specimen, 

 ratlier shorter in the other cj. 



50. Latisternum macropus sjiec. nov. 



S. Similar to L. onca (18^2) Qued., larger, the markings of the upperside 

 olive, not black, much larger, those of the elytra occupying a larger proportion of 

 the surface than tlie grey interspaces. Legs very long, the hindfemur reaching far 

 beyond the apex of the body ; the first segment of the foretarsus longer than 2 to 

 4 together, curved, without long fringe. Antennal segments 3 to 6 incrassate at 

 the very end, curved, 6 strongly hooked and provided with a tuft at the apex on the 

 innerside ; in onca segment is normal, only 3 to T) being clubbed. 



Length, 15— ]8njm. ; elytra, 11 — 12 mm.; breadth, 7— 8 mm. 



JIab. Leopoldville, Congo. 



Three S3. 



