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terior portion black, slightly coppery, with two small yellow spots 

 near the centre of the anterior margin, the anterior and lateral 

 margins yellow. Scutellum with various small black spots ; the 

 apex whitish. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with the outer 

 edge and a fine submarginal line yellow; membrane brownish. 

 Body beneath black, thickly and finely punctured on the sides. 

 Abdomen with the lateral margins, two small streaks on the 

 second and two spots on each of the three succeeding segments, 

 yellow. Breast with a yellow spot at the base of each leg. 

 Legs, rostrum and antennae pale fulvous, the rostrum black at 

 the apex. 



a. W. Africa. Presented by B. Frend, Esq. 



38. RHAPHIGASTER poecilus, n. s. 



R. griseo-testaceus, fusco-punctatus ; scutello maculis 2 basali- 

 bus aurantiis, apice albido ; elytrorum corio macula apicali 

 aurantia ; abdominis marginibus aurantio nigroque variegato, 

 abdomine subtus nigro, disco fulvo-flavo. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 3|. 



Ovate, above greyish testaceous, punctured with brown. Head 

 with the tips of the lateral lobes orange, the back of the ver- 

 tex black. Thorax with the punctures arranged so as to form 

 indistinct brown spots ; the anterior margin orange, with an in- 

 distinct orange spot in the centre. Scutellum yellowish, with 

 three brown spots, namely one in the centre of the basal portion 

 of the disc and one on each side near the apex, and with a bright 

 orange spot in each basal angle ; apex whitish. Coriaceous por- 

 tion of the elytra with a bright orange spot at the apex ; mem- 

 brane transparent, whitish. Margins of the abdomen banded 

 with orange and black, the centre of each segment being orange. 

 Abdomen beneath with the disc bright orange, smooth, shining 

 and impunctate; the sides brownish black, thickly and finely 

 punctured, with the margins spotted with orange ; the apical 

 segment, and the anal apparatus, brown. Breast black, thickly 

 and finely punctured, with the ant ero -lateral margins orange, 

 and with a yellow spot at the base of each of the legs. Legs 

 fulvous ; thighs brownish at the tip. Rostrum yellow, with the 

 tip brown. Antennae wanting, except the basal joint, which is 

 orange-yellow, 

 a. S. Africa. 



39. RHAPHIGASTER pallipes, n. s. 



R. supra fusco-rufescens, tenuissime nigro-punctatus, subtus 

 ochreus, late piceo-fusco marginatus ; pedibus testaceis. 9 . 

 Long. lin. 3^. 



