1898.] PHTTOPHAGOtrS COLEOPTERA OF AFRICA. 237 



the femoral teeth very small. The species should, I think, be 

 placed in a separate genus, since the thorax is not subcylindrical 

 but dilated at the middle, and there is scarcely an ocular groove 

 so distinct in the typical Syagrus calcaratus ; but since so many 

 species of this genus have been described in a very unsatisfactory 

 manner, making the determination very doubtful, I have at present 

 abstained from altering the nomenclature till a better opportunity 

 presents itself. 



Ehembasttts keaatzi, sp. nov. 



Fulvous, the head with two black spots on the vertex, terminal 

 joints of the antennae black ; thorax subremotely punctured ; 

 elytra strongly punctate-striate, pale fulvous, narrowly margined 

 with black. 



Length 4 miUim. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, with a broad triangular black patch 

 on each side above the eyes, the latter surrounded by a broad 

 sulcus ; the clypeus not separated from the face, impunctate ; 

 antennae black, the lower six joints flavous, basal joint strongly 

 thickened, second joint thicker and longer than the third, ter- 

 minal joints thickened ; thorax one-half broader than long, the 

 sides straight, gradually narrowed towards the apex, the basal 

 margins broadly rounded and produced at the middle, the surface 

 distinctly but remotely punctured, fulvous ; scutellum greenish 

 aeneous ; elytra broader than the thorax, very convex, distinctly 

 but not very strongly punctate-striate, each puncture surrounded 

 by a piceous ring, the basal and extreme lateral margins narrowly 

 greenish aeneous ; underside and legs fulvous, the coxae blackish, 

 the femora with a small tooth ; prosternum with a distinctly raised 

 lateral edge. 



Hab. Cameroons (Conrad). 



Of this species a single specimen was previously in my collection, 

 another I received from Dr. Kraatz lately. It may be known 

 by the two large black patches on the vertex, and the narrow 

 greenish-black elytral margins. 



Ehembasttjs recticollis, sp. nov. 



cJ . Metallic dark blue, the head, basal joints of the antennae, 

 the thorax, and the legs fulvous ; thorax finely and remotely 

 punctured : elytra oblong, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices 

 sparingly punctured. 



Length 4-6 millim. 



Of rather elongate and subcylindrical shape, the head impunctate 

 or with a few very minute punctures, the middle longitudinally 

 sulcate ; clypeus transversely subquadrate, impunctate, separated 

 from the face by an obsolete groove, the apical joint of the palpi 

 piceous ; antennae scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, 

 black, the lower four joints fulvous, the second joint not much 

 shorter than the third, terminal joints elongate and slender ; 

 thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides nearly straight 



