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back, oblique, comma-shaped. Scntellnm bluish white. Elytra with the following 

 blnish white markings : a subbasal transverse band as in mi/sterioaas, bnt even 

 broader than in fasciatus, widest at the sutnre, and here jiroduced backwards to 

 middle, where it joins a narrow transverse band composed of dots ; sntnre behind 

 this band also (but ver}' narrowly) blnish white ; apical half of elytra dotted with 

 bluish white. 



Hub. Victoria, Cameroons (Voss). 



One ?. 



X;/ctopuis is easily distinguished from Poimenesperus by the strongly convex 

 pronotum, which has no dorsal subapical sulcus. The cicatri.K is very short, and 

 stands close to the apex of the segment. Segments 3 to 7 of the antenna are thicker 

 than 3 is in middle. The mesosternal process is broad, truncate, not projecting, 

 with the edge obtuse. 



77. Plagiomus spilosus si)ec. nov. 



? . Very similar to multinotatus ; prothorax and elytra proportionally shorter. 

 Frons almost entirely white. Lateral vitta of prothorax much broader, continued 

 across the shoulder obliquely to the middle of the elytrum, fusing with the 

 antemedian sutural and the median subsutural discal spot ; no basal spot near 

 scutellum, bnt suture and scutellum somewhat whitish; postmediau lateral curved 

 spot (originating from two spots having become confluent) less oblique ; anteapical 

 spot more proximal, strongly angle-shaped ; apex with larger spot than in 

 multinotatus. 



Hah. Limbe, Cameroons. 



One ?. 



78. Plagiomus leptis spec. nov. 



i ? . Structurally the same as multinotatus, antennae shorter, prothorax and 

 elytra proportionally narrower, the latter especially narrower at bai-e, the former 

 less rounded laterally before base. 



Glossy black, with the following white markings : a mesial line on frons, 

 anteriorly dilated to a transverse band, a thin frontal border to eye, a vitta beginning 

 at lower edge of eye, running obliquely across cheek, and being continued over the 

 sterna ; another vitta commencing subdorsally behind eye, extending straight over 

 the side of the prothorax to the shoulder, and then running dorsally of the shoulder- 

 angle to the suture, which it reaches just before middle, being slightly bent 

 outwards at extreme end ; elytra, besides, with small sublateral median dot, a 

 narrow transverse baud at ajiical third, straight from lateral margin to middle 

 of disc, then turning almost at a right angle backwards to the suture ; another 

 narrow, transverse, slightly curved baud before apex ; large lateral spots on 

 abdomen. Femora near base and apex, tibiae near base, with greyish white spot ; 

 tarsi slightly whitish above. Extreme base of third and basal half of fourth 

 autennal segment white. 



Length, 12 — 15 mm. 



Ilab. Benito, French (!ongo. 



One J, two ? ¥. 



