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Genus Odontopus. 

 Odontojms dilectus. 



Odontopus cUkctus, "Walk. Cat. Ilet. v. p. 170. n. 8 (1872). 

 A7itUochus'f dilectus, Leth. & Sev. Cat. G6n. I loin. 1. ii. p. 2-13 (1804). 



Allied to 0. sexputtctotus, Lap. The Ihitish Museum now 

 possesses a long series of specimens collected by Col. Yerbury 

 at Aden. 



Odotitopiift scuteUaris. 



Odontopus scuteUaris, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 178. n. 16 (1872). 



This species appears to have been missed in the Catalogue 

 of Lethieny and Severin. 



Odontopus nigricorms. 



Odo7dopus nif/riconvs, StSl, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 146 (1861). 

 PJn/sopelta p/a7ia. Walk. Cat. Ilet. vi. p. 21. n. 12 (1873). 

 Physopelta himaculata, Walk, loc. cit. p. 22. u. 13. 



Odontupus hinotatus. 



Odontopus binotatus, Slal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vii. p. 393 (1803). 

 Physopelta inmunis, Walk. Cat. Het. vi. p. 22. n. 14 (1873). 



Odotitopits angoletisiSj sp. n. 



Ocliraceous ; central lobe and base of head, antenna?, 

 tiansverse anterior disk of pronotum, scutelluu), head be- 

 neath, large coxal spots to sternum, trochanters, legs, 

 rostrum, and anterior areas of abdominal segments, dark 

 sanguineous; base of clavus, a transverse central spot and 

 an a})ical rounded spot to corium, and n)arginal spots to cou- 

 iiexivum above and beneath black. 



Long. 18-21 millim. 



nab. Angola (Brit. Mus., Coll. Di.st.). 



Allied to O. sfxpvnctatus^ Lap., from which it differs by 

 the wider and more tumid anterior margin of the pronotum 

 (which is also di.stinctly longc^r than in U. acxpunclalun), 

 body more elongate, &c. 



Odontopus modestus, sp. n. 



Very pale luteous ; head^ antenna?, transverse space on 

 anterior area of pronotum, and legs ocliraceous, third and 

 lourth joints of antenna? piceous ; corium with a central spot 

 and a spot near apical angle brownish ocliraceous ; membrane 

 and sternal incisures pale brownish ocliraceous; abdominal 

 segmental incisures roseate. 



