1898.] PHTTOPHA€fOTTS COLEOPTEBA OF AEEICA. 239 



green colour without any fulvous tint and by the dark underside 

 and legs. 



Menius chalceattjs, Lefev. 



rulvous, thorax obscure greenish piceous, subremotely punc- 

 tured ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices very strongly 

 costate, an obscure elongate spot at the middle and the sides more 

 distinctly dark greenish feneous. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head light fulvous, finely and sparingly punctured, the middle 

 with a slightly raised central ridge ; the eyes surrounded by a 

 very broad sulcus ; the clypeus transverse, deeply separated from 

 the face, with a few fine punctures ; antennse two-thirds the length 

 of the body, flavous, the seventh and the terminal three joints 

 stained with fuscous at the apex, the second joint as long as the 

 third, the apical joints thickened ; thorax more than twice as 

 broad as long, the sides rounded, the middle widened and broadly 

 rounded at the basal margin, the sides with an obsolete transverse 

 depression, the surface strongly and rather remotely punctured, 

 the basal portion below the depression impunctate, the ground- 

 colour dark fulvous with a dark greenish-aeneous tint ; scutellum 

 pointed at the apex ; elytra slightly wider at the base than the 

 thorax, reddish fulvous, with about twelve rows of deep punctures, 

 the subsutural one short, the interstices strongly longitudinally 

 costate, the seventh, eighth, and ninth costse abbreviated anteriorly 

 and posteriorly and united at both ends ; the middle of the disc 

 with an obscure longitudinal dark greenish band, which becomes 

 indistinct below the middle, the lateral margin likewise dark 

 greenish and accompanied by a row of deep punctures ; underside 

 and the legs fulvous, the sides of the breast darker ; the femora 

 aeneous at the middle, armed with a strong tooth, apex of the 

 tibiae strongly pubescent, claws bifid ; the anterior margin of the 

 thoracic episternum very strongly convex, its anterior angle joined 

 to the margin of the thorax and produced in front of the eyes ; 

 prosternum subquadrate. 



Ilab. Cameroons (Conrad). 



I have given here a detailed description of the specimen which 

 I received from Dr. Kraatz, and which I must look upon as an 

 aberration of Lefevre's species, of which I possess specimens named 

 by the author himself. My present specimen is rather larger, and 

 has the costae more raised and the ground-colour of a more decided 

 fulvous ; but of an elytral depression, of which Lefevre speaks, I 

 can see no trace, not even in the specimen named by him. The 

 type was likewise obtained at the Cameroons. 



EUEYDEMUS POEOSICOLLIS, Sp. nOV. 



Fulvous, the elytra, abdomen, and the legs flavous, intermediate 

 joints of the antennae black ; thorax foveolate-punctate ; elytra 

 ery deeply punctate-striate, the interstices slightly convex ; femora 

 with a small tooth. 



