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head, and in the nearly straight anterior margin of the epistome, but 

 more specially in the sides of the head, which are prolonged sub- 

 quadrately below the eyes ; the thorax does not differ from other 

 species of the genus, being narrowed at the sides, and the surface is 

 unspotted ; the elytral punctuation is very fine, nearly obsolete at the 

 apex, and partly arranged in irregular rows ; the tibiae and tarsi are 

 fulvous. 



I possess a single apparently female specimen, which was 

 obtained by the late Mrs. Monteiro. 



Melitonoma bomaensis, sp. n. 

 Bluish black below ; the tibiae and tarsi flavous ; head black ; 

 thorax flavous, impunctate, with two lateral and one central black 

 spot ; elytra closely and distinctly punctured, flavous, each with five 

 spots (1, 2, 2), the last two obliquely placed. Length, 6 mill. 



Hah. Boma (Congo) ; Angola, Delagoa Bay, Sierra Leone. 



Head black, impunctate, finely pubescent between the eyes, the 

 clypeus feebly semicircularly emarginate anteriorly ; antenna black, 

 the lower four joints fulvous ; thorax strongly transverse, the sides 

 greatly deflexed, nearly straight but slightly narrowed, the disc entirely 

 impunctate, flavous, with a basal subquadrate spot at each side, and 

 another small intermediate spot ; scutellum black, pointed, with a 

 slight central ridge ; elytra feebly lobed at the sides, subcylindrical, 

 rather strongly and closely punctured, the punctures arranged in very 

 irregular rows ; a spot on the shoulders, two others at the middle, 

 placed transversely in a line, and two below the middle, the outer one 

 of which is placed lower than the other, black ; below and the femora 

 bluish black, the tibise and tarsi flavous. 



The position of the posterior spots, which is nearer the apex 

 than in most other allied species of the genus, and their oblique 

 direction, as well as the colour of the tibiae and tarsi, distinguish 

 this species, of which I have six specimens before me. Also 

 collection H. Clavareau. 



Melitonoma punctipennis, sp. n. 

 Bluish black ; the head finely pubescent ; thorax fulvous, im- 

 punctate, with five black spots ; elytra very strongly punctured, 

 fulvous ; a spot on the shoulders, a transverse band at the middle, 

 and another near the apex, blue-black. Length, 6 mill. 



Hah. Niger, Benue Exped. (Staudinger). 



Head black, shining, impunctate, the vertex convex, lower portion 

 pubescent ; eyes large ; antennae not extending to the base of the 

 thorax, black, the second and third joints obscure fulvous; thorax 

 twice as broad as long, very slightly narrowed in front, the disc con- 

 vex, entirely impunctate, flavous, the base with a subquadrate black 

 spot at each side ; the disc with three other small spots placed tri- 

 angularly between the larger ones ; scutellum black, pointed ; elytra 

 feebly lobed at the sides, strongly and closely punctured in irregular 

 rows ; the shoulders with a rather large round spot, the middle with a, 



