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portion in both sexes. In the <? segments 3 to 7 are subcyliadrical with the apex 

 incrassate, there being no groove on the inner surface and no apical spines, as is the 

 case in the d" of P. compresnicorins ; segment S is rather more compressed than 

 7, 9 similar to S in shajie, except in being slightly broader and flatter, 10 and II 

 together less than half the length of 9, the underside of 8 to 11 not pilose. In 

 the ? 8 is less strongly narrowed basad than in P. compressicornia, and 9 is about 

 as long as 8, being more than twice as long as 10. The prothorax is longer than 

 in P. compresslcornis, and the angle of the carina on the whole projects a little 

 farther backwards. 



5. Phloeobiopsis plagifer 8])eo. nov. 



(J ? . Niger, griseo et i'usco pnbescens, albo et ochraceo variegatns ; antennis 

 simplicibus, pronoto ac elytris tiiberculis parvis penicillatis instrnctis, elytris ad 

 apicem et in ntroijue disco griseo-albis. 



Long. (cap. excl.) : 8-13 mm. 



Fort Johnstone, Nyassaland, Jannary — Fehrnary 1896 (Dr. P. Kendall), type ; 

 Caffraria; Windhoek, German S.W. Africa ; Kigonsera and Lukuledi, German East 

 Africa ; a small series of both sexes. 



Shaft of antenna rufescent, with grey pubescence, segment 8 half as long 

 again (?) or twice as long as broad (c?), club broad, segment 10 half as broad 

 again as long, 11 obtuse, slightly longer than broad, emarginate on the anterior 

 side. Upperside of head and thorax covered with a fuscous pubescence densely 

 shaded with dark ochraceous, and here and there variegated with greyish dots ; 

 rostrum transversely depressed at base and again at apex ; frons without median 

 groove. Pronotnm depressed on the disc, with a transverse row of three distinct tufts. 

 The alternate interspaces of the elytra are slightly raised, especially 3, 5 and 7, 

 which bear small tnfts ; the suture and the lateral margin are tessellated grey and 

 fuscous, and the interspaces 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, more or less evenly dirty ochraceous, 

 apart from the large greyish white median patch situated on each elytrum. 

 Pygidinm greyish or yellowish white, like the apex of the elytra. Underside and 

 legs grey, somewhat variegated with fuscous. Tibiae with three ill-defined fuscous 

 patches on the upperside and three whitish rings. 



6. Phloeobiopsis simplex spec. nov. 



¥ . Niger, supra fnaco pnbescens, umbrino variegatns albo-griseo subtessellatns, 

 subtus i)nbe griseo-umbrina vestitns ; antennarum articnlo 3'° quarto longiore, 

 lironoto elytrisi[ne sine tuberculis penicillisque, illo hand depresso, his sat fortiter 

 convexis ; processn mesosternali ad latera leviter angnlato. 



Long. (cap. excl.) : 9 mm. 



Togo, West Africa, 1 ?. 



The species reminds one by its style of coloration of Dendrotrogus hi/pocrita 

 Jekel and the sj)ecies of Basitropis. The shaft of the antenna and the legs are 

 somewhat rufescent. Segment 8 of the antenna is but little longer than broad, 

 while 11 is about twice as long as it is broad. The frons bears a very shallow 

 median depression flanked by two slightly raised lines which are divergent anteriorly 

 and disappear liefore reaching the apex of the rostrum. The pronotnm is coarsely 

 rngate-])unctate except at the apex, and somewhat flattened before the carina, but 

 not impressed on the disc; there is a pair of greyish white dots on each side of the 



