273 Mr. A. White on some apparently unrecorded 



datis nigro-fuscis alternatim latioribus, apice singulis subrotun- 

 datrs ; corporis lateribus singulis lineis tribus punctorum canorum ; 

 pedibus nigro-fuscis ; sterno gibbo. 



Of a deep brown, with a golden hue and a velvety lustre; 

 antennse of a dark brown ; thorax with the lateral tuberculated 

 angle keeled above, the keel extending over the back of the 

 thorax; elytra at the base excised, each with five transverse 

 deep brown undulating bands, the second and fourth the widest, 

 the first and fifth interrupted, each elytron at the tip somewhat 

 rounded ; the under side of the body spotted with cinereous, the 

 spots on the abdomen arranged on each side in three rows ; legs 

 of a deep blackish brown ; sternum very prominent. 



Length 7^ lines. 



Hab. Congo. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



This, with other Afiican species, may form a new genus. The 

 genera of Longicorus are vei-y difficult to define. 



Phnjneta lug ens, n. s. 



P. nigra, cinereo variegata ; antennarum articulis tribus basalibus 

 nigris, 8 ultimis flavis ; thorace supra medio gibbo ; elytris cine- 

 rascentibus, nigro crcbcrrime punctate et plagiato, singulis apice 

 sinuato-emarginatis ; tibiis postice apice ferrugineo ciliatis, tarsis 

 subtus ferrugineis ; sterno gibbo. 



Black and cinereous; antennae with the three basal joints 

 black, the other eight yellow ; face with short dark cinereous 

 hairs; thorax above gibbous in the middle, the lateral spines 

 blunt; elytra with the ground dark cinereous, very thickly 

 marked and spotted with black, a greyish band across the mid- 

 dle ; each elytron somewhat notched at the apex ; tibire behind 

 ciliated with ferruginous hairs on the apical half; tarsi beneath 

 ferruginous ; sternum prominent ; under side dirty cinereous, 

 thickly spotted with black. 



Length 7\ lines. 



Hab. Congo. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Coptops leucostictica, n. s. 



C. cinereo-fuscula, maculis plurimis vagis albidis ; antennarum arti- 

 culis apice nigris ; tibiis apice nigris, femoribus posticis extus medio 

 nigro maculatis ; abdominc subtus medio nigro fasciato, fascia den- 

 tata. 



Covered with a brownish cinereous pile, which, when rubbed, 

 leaves the surface beneath blackish ; it is sprinkled with many 

 small, scattered, whitish spots ; the tips of the joints of the 

 antenna; are black ; the tibiae are black at the tip, and the femoi-a 

 of the hind-legs have a blackish spot on the outside in the middle ; 



