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towards the suture, and gradually diminishing as they ap- 
proach the apex, which is subemarginate, with the external 
angles rounded and the sutural angles turned outwards and 
feebly mucronate. Below more uniform in tint; the meso- 
sternum and metasternum pilose; the abdomen with the mar- 
gins of its segments subdenticulate at the external angle. In 
the female the pencilled margin of hairs on the free margin of 
the last segment of the abdomen is composed of singularly 
shaped hairs, somewhat club-shaped, or like an irregular knob 
on a thin stalk—cherries on a stalk, in fact, only the cherries 
are not round. 
The African species to which this comes nearest is A. sene- 
galensis ; but it differs in the prothorax not having a broad 
longitudinal median canal, in there not being a tubercle on it 
in front of the median lobe, in the sides being sinuate instead 
of rounded, in the elytra not being tubercular at their base, in 
their apex not being bidentate, and in their third interval not 
being more raised than the others. It has more resemblance, 
however, to some of the Malayan species. 
Only one specimen (a female) received. 
Lacon, Lap. 
Lacon sordidus, Cand. Elat. 1. p. 114. 
Of this species I have one specimen, given to me by Mr. 
Fry, who had acquired it from Mr. Gray, of Glasgow, with 
the locality marked as Old Calabar. Mr. Gray was in rela- 
tions with my friends the missionaries, and I have no doubt 
that his locality is to be depended on. The only habitat given 
by Candéze for the species is Senegal. 
My specimen is probably immature, being chestnut-coloured 
instead of black. It may be worth mentioning, as a character 
not noticed by Candéze, that the scales on the elytra are dis- 
posed in pairs on the intervals between the strie, and are 
arranged obliquely, pointing backwards towards each other, 
so that it gives them the appearance of a plaited flat rope. 
DivopoTarsus, Latr., Cand. 
Dilobotarsus cornutus, Cand, Elat. Nouv. p. 8 (1864). 
Castaneus, elytrorum apice ochraceo, pilis albidis et ochraceis 
hic et illic sparsim irroratus, lineari-elongatus, angustus, 
subcylindricus ; fronte excavata, luteo-squamulosa; protho- 
race inequali, antice latiore, lateribus sinuatis, apud mar- 
ginem anticum tuberculis duobus, transversim granulose 
multistriolato ; elytris anguste linearibus, granulose crebre 
