96 On a new Genus and Species o/CleriJae. 



only sliglitly narrowed towards the base, tlie claws simple, 

 widely divergent, with a rather distinct setose onychiiini 

 showing between them at their base ; the second, third, and 

 fourth joints lamellate beneath, the lamellse truncate at the 

 apex. Metasternum produced anteriorly about halfway 

 between the middle coxae, and furnished on the intercoxal 

 process with a more or less prominent tubercle. Fifth ventral 

 segment of the abdomen semicircularly emarginate at the 

 apex in the male, rounded at the aj^ex in the female. 



Tiie male of this genus is readily distinguishable from 

 the female by the very long front legs; the tibial of these 

 legs are furnished at the apex on the posterior side with an 

 obtuse process, and the tarsi are rather densely fringed on 

 each side with long hairs. A sexual difference is also to be 

 found in the form of the last joint of the palpi ; in the 

 female this joint is short and very broad, in the male more 

 elongate. 



The genus is to be placed in the subfamily Olerinse. In 

 its general form and in the structure of its antennae it shows 

 an affinity with Trichodes, Herbst, but differs from the 

 latter by its tuberculate prothorax, the peculiar character of 

 its eyes, the somewhat differently formed tarsi, and the 

 tuberculated intercoxal process of the mesosternum. 



Dieropsis quadriplagiataj sp. n. 



Nigra, hirta ; prothorace utrinque tuberculo eburneo munito ; 

 elytris dense fortiterque punctatis, utrisque fasciis duabus flavo- 

 testaceis, ornatis — una prope basin, secuuda angustiore pone 

 medium. 



Long, d 26, lat. 9 mm. ; long. 5 25-30, lat. 8-10 mm. 



Hah. British Central Africa: Kondowe {A. Whyte), 

 Niomkolo {A. Carson), and Fwambo (TF. H. Nutt). 



Black ; the head, prothorax, base of elytra, body beneath, 

 and legs rather densely covered with long black hairs. Head 

 and prothorax thickly punctured, the latter furnished on each 

 side with a smooth ivory -yellow tubercle of somewhat 

 variable size (in the male type from Kondowe it is scarcely 

 prominent, whereas in the female example from Fwambo it 

 is quite prominent and in form conical). Elytra very 

 closely and strongly punctured, except on the posterior third 

 or fourth part; each with two transverse testaceous-yellow 

 bands, which extend from the lateral border to within a 

 short distance of the suture; tiie anterior band is consider- 

 ably the wider of the two, but narrows towards its inner end, 

 its hind border being nearly straightly transverse, while the 

 anterior border is oblique or slightly curved. 



