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by an arcuate ledge, the concave part is faintly punctulate, and the 
declivous part smooth ; prothorax finely and closely punctate but the 
sculpture is hidden by the long pubescence; scutellum aciculate ; 
elytra parallel, somewhat depressed on the upper side and with the 
humeral callus distinct and elongated, the juxta-sutural stria is alone 
faintly visible, and there are no traces of costules; the pygidial part 
is finely and very closely punctured. 
Female unknown. 
Length 18 mm.; width 84 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls). 
AIPEIOPSIS HIRTICOLLIS, Waterh., 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4 ser., 1875, p. 406. 
‘“Klongated, parallel, convex, brownish, clothed with a flavous 
pubescence; frontal part bearing on the anterior part a short, 
shining, transverse lamina; clypeus concave, plainly punctulate, 
margins strongly reflexed, anterior angles well rounded ; prothorax 
broader by two-fifths than long, obliquely narrowed in front, clothed 
with along flavous pubescence, anterior angles obliterated, sides 
reflexed in the anterior part, shining, base lobate in the middle; 
elytra as broad as the thorax and two and a half times as long, 
slightly convex, finely punctulate, nearly parallel, briefly pubescent 
and bi-costate on each side; under side clothed with long hairs; 
anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate. 
Hab. Uake N’Gami.”’ 
I have not seen this species, which is probably the same size as 
B. hirsuta; but Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, whom I asked to compare 
my example with his species, writes that it is ‘‘ very near B. (Cyclo- 
mera) lurticollis, but the latter has coste on elytra, which are also 
less punctured.,”’ 
PSEUDACHLOA, n. gen. 
Mentum fused with the ligular part, narrow, straight laterally 
from about one-third of the length, narrowed thence but still parallel 
as far as the point of insertion of the palpi, the ligular part is shaped 
like a sharp spine; labial palpi massive and inserted on the outer 
face of the mentum but not quite contiguous at the base, the second 
joint is somewhat triangular and fused with the apical one which is 
sharply conical and inserted obliquely on the second, the outer angle 
of which, moreover, projects distinctly and bears two long sete ; 
maxillz straight, the inner lobe is very plain, and ciliated at the tip, 
