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60. Alphitopola pylas spec. nov. 



?. Black ; antenuii, legs aud iiiulerside of body covered with a tliiu bluish 

 grey pubescence ; rest of body clothed with a dense pubescence of a yellowish 

 clay-coloiir as in pi/hdrs. Cheek frontally little wider than the scape of the 

 antenna is broad at the ape.x. Third anteunal segment half as long again as fourth. 

 Prothorax with a minute black tubercle at the side; anterior transverse groove 

 distinct but shallow ; no punctures visible ; basal edge and scutellam blackish. 

 Elytra essentially as in pi/lodes, but there are three black markings — an elongate 

 spot at base close to shoulder, a round dot at lateral margin behind shoulder, and 

 a similar dot on disc at basal fourth. Mesosternal tubercle conical, strongly 

 projecting ventrad, almost vertical, with the tip obtuse. 



Length, 16 mm.; elytra, 11 mm. ; breadth, ■) mm. 



Hah. German East Africa (no special locality given). 



One ? , received from Messrs. Standinger and Bang-Haas. 



Bangalaia quedenfeldti (1802) Duviv. 



c? ? . Described as an An>/hosteth«. In apjiearance nearly exactly the same 

 as B. variegata ; pronotum with greenish grey mesial vitta, and elytra with large 

 greenish grey basal area, which is posteriorly rather well defined, except at suture. 

 Lower lobe of eye much smaller than in variegata, its vertical diameter being 

 shorter than the distance of the eye from the genal edge. Scape of antenna 

 shorter than in variegata. Side-spine of prothorax vestigial, while it is prominent 

 in variegata. 



AVe have a series of this species from Benito, French Congo. 



61. Bangalaia soror spec. nov. 



? . Eye and scape of antenna as in variegata ; prothoracical side-spine 

 vestigial. Sides of prothorax, a sharply marked antemedian patch on each elytrum 

 including a brown spot, and a very few widely separated dots in apical fourth, 

 greenish white ; sides of prosternnm covered with the same tomentum, marked with 

 a brown dot ; rest of underside much more sparsely jaubescent than in cariegata and 

 quedenfeldti. 



Ilab. Benito, French C!ongo. 



One ¥. 



62. Bangalaia molitor spec. nov. 



? . Black, densely covered with a white tomentum, which assumes a bluish 

 grey tint where it is not dense, namely on frons, antenna and legs. Frons as broad 

 as high, anterior edge white. Eye coarsely granulate, lower lobe large, its vertical 

 diameter longer than the brown cheek is high ; occiput with an anteriorly divided 

 blackish brown mesial triangular patch. Scape of antenna about twice as long 

 as broad ; cicatrix very prominent. Thorax without spine at side, the subapical 

 and the two basal transverse grooves strongly impressed, a black dot in place of 

 the spine, and a few black punctures laterally on disc before basal constriction. 

 Scntellum large. Elytra distinctly broader than the prothorax, shoulders 

 firomincnt, the base being impressed close to the shoulders ; two black bands, both 

 irregular in outline, being partly composed of confluent black dots, neither reaching 

 the suture, one at basal fourtli, laterally curving to base, including the shoulder 



