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Spilotragus gen. nov. 



cJ ? . Head less retractile than in Tragiscoschema, wider, more strongly 

 narrowing at neck. Pronotum witbont distinct basal lobe ; prosternuiu simply 

 arched, not trnncate in front, not so high as the coxae, very narrow in middle. 

 Mesosterual process not projecting, deelivons. 



Tyi>e : S. xanthus. 



Here belong, besides the type, the species described as : — 



Rhapliidujjsis guttata (1897) Jord., in Donaldson Smith, Through L'likii. 

 Count/: Afr. p. 463 (Somaliland) ; 



Tragiscoschema oriiata (1898) Gahan, Ann. Mfig. N. 11. (7). ii. p. 52 (E. Afr.); 

 and probably — 



Tragiscoschema laetula (1899) Pering., Ann. S. Afr. Mas. i. \k 325 (Zambesi). 



8ii. Spilotragus xanthus spec. nov. 



6 ? . Black ; pubescence of antenna, of legs and middle of nnderside grey. 

 Frous and cheek sulphnr-yellow, this pubescence e.xtending beyond the interautennal 

 groove, from where a sulphur-yellow vitta runs obliquely along the eye over the 

 occiput, not reaching prothorax, antennal tubercle also yellow at upper edge of lower 

 lobe of eye. Underside of antenna yellowish pubescent. Prothorax pale yellow ; 

 a rather ill-defined vitta below the short side-tubercle, an apical and a median 

 lateral discal dot, a mesial apical dot and a mesial discal ronnded patch covered with 

 blackish brown jiubescence. Elytra long, rather flattened above, the apex of each 

 strongly rounded ; rufons brown from base to beyond middle, this area gradually 

 narrowing behind and extending at suture at least to apical fifth, covered with 

 a brownish grey pubescence ; a broad, very ill-defined short basal mesial vitta, the 

 lateral margin below shoulder, a postmedian, elongate-triangular, posteriorly 

 truncate, anteriorly pointed patch, which extends posteriorly from outer margin to 

 the shallow sutural impression, and a narrow, straight, transverse, anteapical band, 

 which nearly reaches suture, sulphur-yellow ; apical area from triangular patch 

 backwards black. Sterna with sulphur-yellow lateral stripe, continued to the apex 

 of the fourth abdominal segment, but being yellowish grey on abdomen ; the stripe 

 dilated at the apices and narrowed at the bases of the abdominal segments, apical 

 fringes of these yellowish grey. 



Length, 10 — 14 mm. 



Ilalj. Zomba, Nyassaland, x.— xii. 1895 (Dr. Percy Kendall). 



A series. 



81. Chariesthes affinis spec. nov. 



?. Close to Ch. antennata, with the same triangular mesial groove in front of 

 tlie basal constriction of the pronotum. Brown bands of prothorax rather wider ; 

 elytra differently spolted : basal discal spot as in antennata ; a large sublateral spot 

 just behind humeral angle, no median sutural spot, a kidney-shaped mesial spot 

 a little before middle, uo autemedian lateral spot, anterior part of C-sbaped ante- 

 apical spot not curving so far laterad as in antennata, scarcely reaching middle of 

 disc, within the black space limited at the sntural side by this greyish greeu C 

 (which is jjiiinted behind) there is a greyish green lateral spot. 



llaO. Benito, French Congo. 



One ?. 



We Lave antennata also from Benito. 



