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the sides slightly diverging posteriorly, the posterior margin 

 well rounded ; the anterior half slightly elevated and tumid, 

 the posterior portion flattened. 



Elytra broad, smooth, short, truncated at the apex, testa- 

 ceous or fulvous, with two broad, longitudinal, black bands— 

 one on the inner, one on the outer margin. 



Wings well developed, smooth, black, broadly banded with 

 fulvous exteriorly. 



Feet uniform fulvo-testaceous. 



Abdomen black, tinged with dark reddish ; lateral tubercles 

 distinct, rather broad, extremely finely granulated; last dorsal 

 segment rectangular, transverse, tumid over the insertion of 

 the forceps, with a square depression in the middle of the 

 posterior margin ; penultimate ventral segment very large, 

 entirely covering the last segment, rounded, faintly emar- 

 ginate in the middle of tiie posterior margin. 



Pygidium very short, not projecting beyond the penultimate 

 ventral segment, transverse, faintly emarginate in the middle. 



Forceps reddish black, the branches remote at the base, 

 stout, dilated in the basal third ; the dilated part is terminaled 

 by a long, stout, very sharp tooth on the inner margin, 

 pointing towards the apex ; beyond this the branches are 

 more slender, not dilated, smooth, unarmed, simply incurved, 

 the apices meeting ; the whole furceps is slightly bent down- 

 wards. 



Patria. West Africa, Ogowe (type, in British Museum, ex 

 coll. de Bormans) : River Niger, Oguega (coll. mea). Both 



? unknown. 



The last entry in de Bormans's notes is the name of this 

 species, with the first words of the description ; these are 

 probably the last entomological words he ever wrote, for the 

 paralysis struck him down before he could complete it. The 

 type, labelled by him under this MS. name, is in the British 

 Museum, and I have a single male in my collection. 



It is. perhaps, most nearly allied to Ch. plagiatus^ also an 

 African species, which it resembles in being brightly coloured. 

 It is, however, a very distinct form and not likely to be con- 

 fused with any known species. 



Chelidura Peringueyi ^ sp. n. 



Statura minore ; colore rufo-testaceo, fusco-variegato ; antennne 12- 

 segmentatae ; pronotum quadratum ; scutellura perspicuum, 

 parvum ; elytra rudimeutaria, baud libera, brevia, transversa ; 

 pedes testacei : abdomen fusco-rufum, cJ apicem versus paullo 



