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 margin laterally, snrrounding the black humeral angle and a large black basal 

 patcb, which .nr'ronndB the scntellum and is trilobate, the sutnral 1"'- J-S;".- 

 short and acute, tl>e side-lobes broad and roauded ; the h.nder -^ge of th -ea . 

 straight at the sntnre and then sends ont a short acnte process. A median aiea 

 extending to the lateral edge, and joined here to the subbasa one, P-J-f ^^^J^ 

 to the sutnre, and sends frontad a spur carving at the end towards the «"t - J^" 

 a shorter spur closer to the suture, the black sinus between the two spurs being 

 almost evenly rounded ; a lateral spot between the subbasal and median areas. A 

 comma-shap;d snbapicd spot pointing frontad with the subsutural narrow end, and 

 rrioining the median area ; between this spot and the median area there are two 

 spots,' one lateral, the other discal. Apical edge also creamy white 



Underside all creamy white, except the following markings : a minute dot a 

 the upper ed-e of the mesosternal episternum, a linear one on the ep.merum a small 

 ovat'spot posteriorly on the metasternum, and three rows of spots on the abdomen 

 one mesial and one on each side. The mesial spots of the abdomen are inore o le 

 covered with a pale pubescence, while the side-spots are very sharply defined and 

 small • lit segment Wack at ape... Tibi.e, tarsi, and upper lip somewhat greenish 



^''^'■? Diifers from the 6 in the thinner and shorter antenna, which reaches 

 just b;vond the middle of the elytra, in the creamy white lateral areas of the 

 ironotum joining one another apically, and in the abdominal segments 2 to . 

 possessing at each side of the middle a sharply marked, oblique, small spot. 

 Length, 28—32 mm. ; breadth, 9—10 mm. 



Hub S.W. Madagascar (Last). , t i 



it antenna beh^g very heavy in the S and short in the ? > the postantennal 

 part of the head being black, with two creamy white spots on each side, the black- 

 spotted abdomen, etc., distinguish this species from ocuUrolUs, vanegata, etc. 



73. Tragocepliala morio spec. nov. 

 ?■ Head and thorax entirely black, without markings. Elytra with a patch 

 behind shoulder, widest below, narrowing above, its upper end about 2i mm. diston 

 from suture ; a transverse median band, extending to -^^nral carina wh t s 

 truncate the band slightly widening laterad, its anterior edge shallowly uni-, 

 po" e S edge biconcave ;-a large longitudinal apical patch, t-ngu ar .ts ou er 

 edge parallelwith and close to outer margin of eljtrnm, its sutura edge sligM^ 

 biconcave; these markings dull cinnamon-rufous, tl^'"\y«dged with buffi Undu 

 surface and legs clothed with a thin grey pubescence ; f l°-"-\f f ^^^.'j^^^ \ 

 with a rather large round cinnamon-rufous lateral spot, segments 2 and o with a 



""'"struct;;;, very different from that of all other species of Trc^c.e,kala known 

 to me Head and prothorax with dispersed, very thin, long white haus. Head 

 1 d,'deeply concave between the antennal tubercles. Vertical '^-^ -J^^l- 

 lobe oi e e scarcely surpassing the height of the cheek. f-^ho-x f epb^ 

 constrictei in front of the lateral spine, the groove extendmg ^^ '' ^ ^^^ « J^ ' 

 though it is here shallow; upperside depressed and very roughh ^''i'^'c^ilate. 

 Mes<tternal process longer than broad (ventral surface), obviously narrowing to end, 

 which is njunded-truncate and slightly sinuate. 



Length, 30 mm. ; breadth, 9i mm. 



Ilah. Manow, German K. Africa. 



