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tinge, or pitchy, finely and thickly punctured ; the antennae 

 with four or five joints at the base pitchy red, gradually 

 passing into the black club, insensibly thickened from the 

 seventh joint, but the club is clearly three-jointed. The 

 thorax is pitchy, becoming yellow in the basal half, with 

 a slight metallic tint. The elytra are punctate-striata (as in 

 P. Marshalli) ; there are eight strite, apart from the marginal 

 one, which is on the reflexed edge ; their apex is simple, the 

 sutural angle is a right angle, and there is no mucro. 



Subfam. Dacnibes, 



Amblyscelis, Gorham. 



Amhlyscelis nigrinus, sp. n. 



Breviter oblongus, siibcordatus, nitidus, niger, crcbre fortius punc- 

 tatus ; elytris punctato-striatis, intcrstitiis punctulatis ; autennis 

 pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus piceis. 



Long. 4 millim. 



Hah. Nalal, 7252, 7253, 219, 220 [Marshall). 



Black, shining ; legs and antennae and palpi yellow, the 

 femora pitchy or nearly black ; tibias very strongly dilated in 

 their apical half. Head and thorax closely and strongly 

 punctured, the punctures not confluent. Antennee of the 

 form and length usual in the genus, rather slender, their 

 length about equal to the width of the head, the two basal 

 joints nodiform, the third elongate, the club composed of 

 three strongly transverse joints. The thorax very little 

 narrowed in front, with deflexed front angles, the hind 

 angles almost right angles, the disk convex, the sides very 

 finely margined ; the base and apical margin not margined. 

 Elytra narrowed to the apex, presenting almost a uniform 

 outline with the thorax, finely striate, with close but small 

 punctures, the strise and punctures continued to the apex ; 

 the interstices even, with small, rather sparse punctures. 

 Underside thickly, not deeply nor coarsely, punctured ; pro- 

 sternal process very wide at the truncate apex and margined; 

 coxal lines on the ventral basal segment, which appear 

 raised. 



This species has quite the appearance of a Triplax. As 

 Crotch remarks, the African species which have been referred 

 to that genus are not typical. 



Amhlyscelis Conradt/', sp. n. 



A. nigrini statura et summa similitudine, niger, nitidus, crebre 

 fortius punctatus ; elytris profundius punctato-striatis, interstitiis 



