from South and West Africa. 89 



fortius punctulatis ; labro, antennis, palpis, pedibusque luteis, illis 

 articulis quinque ultimis nigro-piceis, clava laxe articulata. 

 Long. 4 millim. 



Hah. W. Africa, N. Cameroon, Johann Albreclitshohe 

 ijj. Conradt). 



Oi the same size and extremely liite A. nigrinus, but 

 rather broader, more like a Tritoma^ the antennae are longer, 

 their third joint is almost as long as the two basal ones taken 

 together; the fourth, fifth, and sixth are elongate, the seventh 

 and eiglith bead-form ; the three apical joints form a lax 

 club^ tne first two are strongly transverse, the apical one 

 round and yellowish at the tip. Tiie body beneath is pitchy, 

 but nearly blacky strongly and deeply punctured. The legs 

 with their coxa3 are entirely luteous yellow. 



Sent to me by Dr. Kraatz for description. 



Amhiyscelis hrunneus, sp. n. 



C)blongus, subparallelus, totus brunneus, parum nitidus ; capita 

 prothoraceque creberrime, distincte baud profunde punctatis ; 

 elytris striato-punctatis, subcreiiulatis, interstitiis baud punctatis, 

 subopacis. 



Long. 4-5 millim. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt, Frere [Marshall). 



This insect is very like the species described by me as 

 A. pallidus ('Notes from Leyden Museum,' 1888, p. 146) from 

 the Congo, but on comparing them closely it is rather larger 

 than the single exponent of tliat species in my possession, 

 and the interstices of the elytra are not finely punctulate as 

 they are in it. It is of a parallel, dull, rusty-brown colour. 

 The antennaj are short, with the club almost capitulate, com- 

 posed of three strongly transverse joints. The thorax is 

 convex, with its basal margin somewhat deflexed, except in 

 the middle, so that the lobe appears rather elevated in front 

 of the scutellura. The sides are a little more rounded than 

 '\\\ A. jyallidus Q.xi^ the front angles depressed. The elytra 

 have eight finely punctured stria3, the punctures of which are 

 so close that they almost join each other ; the striaj coalesce 

 in pairs near the apex. The tibise are strongly dilated in the 

 apical half, the dilated part compressed. This insect is like 

 a unicolorous T. vittipennis (Gorh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 614), 

 but is smaller, and the dilatation of the tibiae and the 

 structure of the antennae, especially that of the club, are quite 

 different. 1 have taken an African insect for the type of 

 Amhli/scelis, otherwise I should have regarded this species 

 and A. nigrinus as belonging to my genus Petaloscelis, 



