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Anatragus (1897) Kolbe, Kii/ei- D. 0. Afrikas p. 312 (type : oniatus). 



According to the definition of this genns, there belong to it the West African 

 species described as : — 



Lamia {Trayoccpfmla) jiulcliella (1845) Westw., Arc. Ent. ii. p. 85. u. 4. t. 69. 

 f. 4 (Sierra Leone) ; and 



liliapliidopsis virens (1894) Jord., Nov. Zool. i. p. 215 (Kniln). 



79. Tragiscoschema venus spec. nov. 



?. Black, clothed with a grey tomentum ; antenna greenish in certain lights. 

 Head orange, except around spot in centre of frons, a mesial vitta on occiput, which 

 does uot reach frontad to the interanteunal groove, and two lateral vittae, one 

 behind antenna, the other behind eye, black. Prothorax shorter and more convex 

 on disc and at sides than in icaklbergi and amahilis ; side-spine short ; basal lobe 

 rounded ; an obli<iue orange vitta at each side on disc as prolongation of the orange 

 occipital vitta of head, narrowing in front, bordered with black. Scutellum brown 

 at apex. Elytra rather short, less elongate than in canabilis, more distinctly narrowing 

 apicad, with the shoulders more prominent; an oblique orange streak beginning at 

 the base close to the scutellum and ending behind the shoulder, its end being on a 

 level with the humeral angk% the vitta not reaching to the declivous side of the 

 elytrum ; it is bordered with black ; an oblique orange transverse band beginning 

 at lateral margin behind middle, where it is widest, and curving obliquely to suture, 

 reaching this at apical third ; the band has a narrow black anterior border and is 

 rather suddenly dilated basad at outer margin ; area from this band to apex black, 

 including a white transverse anteapical spot. Prosteruum with orange lateral vitta, 

 intercoxal process snbvertical in front, not transversely cariniform ; mesosterunm 

 with small orange spot close to coxal groove ; process as in amabilis and ivahlhergi ; 

 a broad orange lateral stripe on metasternnm ; segments 1 to 4 of abdomen marked 

 each with a sharply defined, apical, anteriorly rounded, lateral spot, whicli is orange 

 and white. 



Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Hub. Lnitpold Mts., near Skutha, British East Africa. 



One ?. 



Tragiscoschema (1857) Thorns., Arch. Ent. i. p. 67 (type : bertolonii). 



I unite under this generic term those species placed under Rhapkidopsis in the 

 Munich Catalogue, \i. 3052, in which the eye is completely divided, the connecting 

 bar of the upjier and lower lobes not being facetted as it is in Rhaphidopsi.'i 

 melaleuca and allies, and in which the pronotnm is lobate at the base, the prosternal 

 process truncate in front, the mesosternal one broad, horizontal and also truncate, 

 and in which, further, the antennae have no cicatrix. 



Here belong ivelwitschi, iiigropirta, wahlbergi, timabilis, bertolonii, and some 

 others. 



Some of the species which have been described as Rhaphidopsis and 

 Tragiscoschema differ obviously in the head, prothorax and mesosternum. For 

 these I propose a new genus : — 



