348 Mr. G. Lewis on 



histriato, atriis rcctis haud coujunctis ; mcsostorno antice im- 

 marginato ; tibiis anticis 6-dentatis. 

 L. 5^-6 mill. 



Oblong, somewhat cylindrical, greenish blue and sliining ; 

 the head sHghtly impressed anteriorly; marginal stria com- 

 plete, surface microscopically punctulate; the thorax, mar- 

 ginal stria is widely interrupted behind the head, the disk 

 before the scutellum is almost smooth, but behind the head 

 and laterally it is conspicuously punctate ; the elytra, strise, 

 outer humeral fine bent and reaching the middle from the apex, 

 1-4 complete, 5 short and apical or wanting, siitural apical 

 well-marked and reaching just beyond the middle; the 

 pyoidia are closely and somewhat coarsely punctate; the 

 prosternum bistriate, striae straight and not joining at either 

 end and do not quite reach the base; the raesosternuni is 

 somewhat acute and immarginate anteriorly ; the anterior 

 tibife G-dentate. 



In form and colour this species somewhat resembles 

 P. Baffruyi, Lew., but it is slightly greener and being broader 

 is a little less cylindrical. 



Ilab. Kilimanjaro (5;o.-;<ec?<). Two examples. 



Pachycrcerus nanus ^ sp. n. 



Oblongus, parum couvesus, subniger, nitidus, pedibus rufo-brunneis ; 

 f route stria utriuque angulata, antice late interrupta ; propygidio 

 parum grosse puiictato ; mesosterno stria transversa arcuata, 

 stria marguiali late interrupta. 



L. 2| miU. 



Oblong, rather convex, nearly black and shining, legs and 

 antennae reddish brown ; the head very feebly impressed 

 anteriorly, surface with punctures of varying sizes not closely 

 set, stria angulate near the eye, oblique anteriorly and 

 abruptly shortened; the thorax, marginal stria fine and not 

 passing behind the neck, punctuation not close and consisting 

 of somewhat large points and fine ones intermixed ; the 

 elytra, outer humeral stria fine and complete, inner short and 

 nearly median, 1-4 dorsal complete, 5 wanting, sutural a 

 little shortened at both ends, apices very sparingly punctured ; 

 the propygidium is somewhat coarsely, but not closely 

 punctured ; the pygidium, punctures much smaller and fewer ; 

 the prosternum is bistriate, stria3 sinuous and not joining at 

 either end, keel moderately broad ; the niesosternum is 

 bisinuous anteriorly, not pointed, and the marginal stria is 

 "widely interrupted, the transverse stria is detached and in 

 the form of an arc, with a few irregular notches alono: tiie 



