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105. Abaraeus cnneatus spec. nov. 



c?. Blackisli brown ; pnbesceiice of autenua, legs ami nnderside of bod}' olive- 

 chocolate, tarsi and tip of tibiae clay-colour in certain lights, upperside greyish, 

 mottled with brown and clay-colour ; a brown lateral marginal patch on elytrum 

 beyond middle, its anterior border blackish, oblique, forming a hook-shaped mark ; 

 a brownish subapical patch at suture. Proximal segments of antenna, legs and 

 underside of body with dispersed short white hairs. Abdominal segments 1 to 4 

 with a creamy sublateral apical dot. 



Frons with dispersed punctures. Antennal tubercles widely apart. Antennal 

 segment 4 shorter than 5 -|- 6. Prothorax above without transverse sharply 

 impressed sulci, with large dispersed jninctures and two large tubercles above ; 

 these tubercles, one on each side of disc, are antemedian, pyramidal ; a small, 

 subdivided, mesial tubercle before basal constriction. Scutellum brown. Elytra 

 flattened, rectangular at shoulders, gradually narrowing apicad, cuneiform, truncate- 

 bisinnate at end, with the sutnral and lateral angles very strongly rounded ; a 

 tubercle in middle of base, some large granules from shoulder to near middle ; 

 puncturation consisting of large and small punctures, densest at base, large 

 puuctures from base to apex. Underside smooth. 



Length, 18 mm.; elytra, 13 mm.; breadth, mm. 



Hab. Batanga, C'ameroons. 



One S. 



106. Eunidia mimica spec. nov. 



S. Similar to E. dimsa (1864) Pasc. from Natal, described as S'/ess/ta. Head, 

 prothorax, scutellum, basal three-fifths of elytra and midcoxa ochraceous, base of 

 fourth segment of antenna and tip of eleventh and trochanters luteous. Antennal 

 tubercles, an angle-shaped band connecting them, a lateral patch behind eye continued 

 to base of prothorax, two vittae on occiput, uniting behind and continued as one to 

 beyond middle of ])ronotnm, antenna, apical two-fifths of elytra, legs and remainder 

 of nnderside of body, black ; femora brownish towards base. 



Frons fiat. Antenna one-third longer than the body ; third segment shorter 

 than in divisa. Elytra coarsely punctured, each with two distinct and two feeble 

 raised lines ; apex sharply truncate. 



Length, 10 mm. 



Hab. Benito, French Congo. 



One S. 



107. Hippopsicon pleuricum spec. nov. 



? . Robust, brownish black, pubescence of head yellowish, of antenna, legs and 

 sterna olivaceous, of pronotum and elytra greyish white ; a chalky white lateral 

 vitta from ajiex of prosternum to base of fifth abdominal segment, gradually and 

 slightly narrowing anad, sharjily defined beneath, situated close along the edge of 

 the elytra, which are nearly white laterally ; anterior side of foreleg grey. No 

 vittae on upperside. Frons granulose. Antenna one-third to one-half longer than 

 the elytra : third segment half as long again as fourth. Prothorax transversely 

 wrinkled above, with a few small setiferous jmnctures at the vertical sides and before 

 base on disc. Elytra finely punctured, the punctures largest at base, but remaining 

 also here smaller than the interspaces, somewhat seriated on disc in middle ; apex 

 obliquely truncate, outer angle not acute. 



