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pubescence. Antennas a little longer than the body in the 

 male; first joint grey, third fuscous at apex, the rest almost 

 entirely fuscous, each having but a narrow grey ring at the 

 base. 



Idactus lateralis, sp. n. 



Pube fulvo-grisea bmnneo-comtnixfca vestitas ; elyfcris lateribus 

 fusco-velufcinis ; prothorace lateraliter in medio leviter tubercu- 

 lafco, supra haud tuberculato, antice posticaque tnnsversim bisul- 

 cato ; elytris utrisque prope basin tuberculo parvo et fasciculo 

 minuto fusco instructis, disco inter basin meliurnque vix de- 

 presso ; an tennis ( £ ) quaoi corpore paullo longioribus. 



Long. 14, lat. 5 mm. 



Hob. N'Giriama, Brit. E. Africa (Dr. J. IV. Gregory). 



Head rather convex in front ; the occiput with two small 

 fuscous A -shaped marks. Prothorax with a feeble tubercle 

 at the middle of each side ; the disk without tubercles, but 

 marked just in front of the middle with an impressed arcuate 

 line, which is seen only when the covering pubescence is 

 rubbed away. Elytra each with a small tubercle and small 

 tuft of fuscous hairs near the base, with a dark brown baud 

 running along the side from the base to the apex, the upper 

 border of the band not being straight, but somewhat sinuous 

 near the base, and angularly emarginate at one or two other 

 points. 



Paridactus, gen. nov. 



Allied to the genus Idactus, from which it is to be distin- 

 guished by its cylindrical thorax, the sides of which are 

 almost straight and quite unarmed. The elytra are parallel- 

 sided for some distance from the base, and evenly convex 

 above, except near the base, where each carries a short feebly 

 raised crest. The tarsi are broadly dilated. 



Paridactus tarsalis, sp. n. 



Capitis fronte cinerea, inter oculos transversim fusco-bifaaciata, 



capite supra pronotoque et elytris liavo-griseo-pubescentibus ; 

 prothorace lateraliter utrinque fusoo-vittato, supra tuberculo 

 mediauo instructo ; elytrorum lateribus a basi usque ad medium, 

 et vitta arcuata pone medium disci, infuscatis ; corpore subtus 

 cum pedibus flavo-testaceis, cinereo tenuiter pubescentibus ; 

 tarsis late dilatatis, supra nigris, pube cinerea tectis ; antenuis 

 ( 2 ?) quam corpore paullo longioribus, griseis, articulis a tertio 

 upiee fusco-annulatis. 

 Long. 0, lat. 3 mm. 



