42 Mr. C. J. Galian 07i new Longiccrn 



Phcederus Peelei, sj). n. 



Piceiis : elytris, pediLus antennisque nifo-briiuiieis, griseo subtiliter 

 piiLfScentibus ; protlaoiace transvcrsim rugoso, haud longitu- 

 dinaliter impresso; elytris crebre punetiilatis, et puuctis pariim 

 rufijoribus sat sparse dispersis impressis, ajnce quadrispinosis ; 

 anteunis ( c?) quani corpore ruulto lougioribus, articulo 1° piceo, 

 crasso, iiigoso et puiictulato, articulo 3° ad apiccm iiodulcso, 

 antice haud augulato, articulis 4" ad 10""^ ajnce antice dentato- 

 productis. 

 Long. 2b, lat. 7 mm. 



Hah. Samburu, Brit. E. Africa {C. S, Bett07i) and Somali- 

 land (C. V.Peele). 



Head, thorax, and underside of body dark brown, covered 

 with a thin greyish pubescence. Prothorax armed with a 

 conical tubercle on each side, transversely wrinkled above, 

 without longitudinal impressions or smooth spaces on the 

 disk. Elytra reddish brown, closely and finely punctured, 

 with some larger punctures rather thickly spread on tiie basal 

 region, but becoming sparser towards the middle and almost 

 entirely absent from the posterior area ; surface covered witli 

 a greyish pubescence, not sufficiently dense to conceal the 

 punctures or the colour of the derm ; each elytron bispinose 

 at the apex. Antenna? much longer than the body in the 

 male, a little longer than tlie body in the female; first joint 

 stout, lugose, and slightly curved ; third joint thickened, but 

 not angulate at the apex ; fourth and following (the last 

 excepted) each produced into an acute angle at the apex. 



1'hrce examples of tliis species have been seen — two 

 collected by Mr. Bitton, the third by Mr. Peele. 



Apiocephalus, gen. nov. {Tvxotides). 



Head stroiigly but gradually narrowed behind the eyes, the 

 latter piomincnt, coaisely facetted, and very feebly emnrgiuate 

 in fiont. Anteni.a? longer than the body; first joint slightly 

 curved, gradually thickened from base to apex, and equal in 

 length to the second and third united ; fourth joint a little 

 .shorter than the third and distinctly shorter than the fifth ; 

 succeeding joints siibequal to one another and to the fifth. 

 Prothorax much narrower in front than at the base, furnished 

 with an acute conical tubercle at the middle of each side, and 

 ■with four tubercles on the disk — two smaller just in front of, 

 and two larger just behind, the middle. Elytra with the 

 sides nearly parallel in the anterior two thirds, thence con- 

 verging more strongly towards the apex, where each elytron 



