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Antennal tnbevcle and occipnt pnnctured near eye. Prothorax with a few 

 punctnres laterally before basal constriction ; apical snlci absent from middle. 

 Scntellum ronnded, impressed. Elytra somewhat flattened, with parallel sides 

 and slightly truncate ape.\ ; base foveolate, especially at sides ; apical third with 

 scarcely any punctures. 



Length, 10 mm. ; elytra, 13 mm. ; breadth, 6A mm. 



Ilnh. AbetiK, Ashanti. 



One ?. 



90. Frea cincta spec. nov. 



?. Black, clothed with an ashy grey, slightly clayish, pubescence. Two large 

 triangular spots on occiput black. Antenuariuged with grey, segment 3 nearly =4 + 5, 

 and = + 10 + 11, 4 = 5 + 0, distal segments short. Pronotum with a sharply 

 defined black band at apex and at base, a few punctures laterally on disc before basal 

 groove ; side-spine rather narrow, similar to that of Frea sparsilis. Scutellum 

 black like base of elytra. These long, reticulated with grey (except base), strongly 

 rounded at apex, longitudinally impressed laterally on disc ; puncturation similar 

 to that of sparsilis. Pubescence of underside (except middle) and of legs dense ; 

 no spots. 



Length, IT mm. ; elytra, 13 mm.; breadth, 01 mm. 



Hab. Ndoro, Upper Ogowd R. 



One ?. 



91. Acinocera anthriboides picta subsp. nov. 



6 ? . The East African form. Upperside variegated with white and tawny-olive, 

 the colours contrasting much more than in the West African subspecies ; a sutural, 

 antemedian dark patch on elytra and subapical transverse zigzag band conspicuous, 

 seldom the elytra all grey, excepting shoulders and apes. Underside, legs and 

 bases of antennal segments whitish grey. Pronotum deeper impressed mesially, 

 the mesial antebasal tubercle higher than in anthr. anthriboides. 



Hab. Dar-es-Salaaai, German East Africa. 



A series. 



92. Acridoschema atricollis spec. nov. 



c? ? . Allied to A. apicalis (1894) Jord., but differs in the following points: 

 head, pronotum and underside very thinly pubescent, glossy black ; elytra 

 less sharply carinate on shoulders, the sutural angle not rounded, and the pattern 

 different ; grey ; shoulder, a sutural spot near scutellum, two small spots behind 

 shoulder, varying in size, in our ? divided up into dots, a mesial patch on each 

 elytrnm, transversely ovate, a broad irregular band before the apical declivity, and 

 a more or less indistinct irregular subapical spot, black ; tuft of third antennal 

 segment vestigial. 



Hab. Congo, no special locality given. 



Two 66, one ¥. 



A. apicalis has a sharply defined black postmedian band on the elytra, no 

 median patch and no subbasal and sutnral spots, and the tuft of the third segment 

 of the antenna is large. We have now specimens of apicalis from the Congo and 

 Cameroons. 



