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joints metallic blue, the rest pubescent, the third joint one-half 

 longer than the second, halt the length of the fourth joint : 

 thorax strongly transverse, much widened at the middle, the sides 

 slightly rounded as well as the anterior angles, the latter thickened, 

 with the setiferous pore placed below the angle, posterior margin 

 rounded and produced at the middle, the surface with some 

 extremely minute punctures, only visible under a strong lens ; 

 scutellum broad, impunctate; elytra very elongate, parallel, finely 

 but distinctly and very closely punctured : underside less metalHc, 

 clothed with greyish pubescence ; legs slender ; all the tibiffi 

 mucronate ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi much longer than 

 the following joints together ; claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal 

 cavities open. 



Hah. Cameroons. 



I have received two specimens of this large-sized species from 

 Dr. Kraatz of Berhn. 



LUPEBTTS WEISEI, n. Sp. 



Piceous, above testaceous ; thorax subquadrate, scarcely per- 

 ceptibly punctured ; elytra extremely closely and finely punctate. 



Length 11 line. 



Elongate and parallel; the head impunctate, fulvous or testa- 

 ceous, frontal elevations transverse, rather broad ; clypeus strongly 

 raised, triangular, its apex between the antennae rather broad ; 

 antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra, black, the 

 lower three joints and the base of the fourth flavous, basal joint 

 curved at the base, second scarcely shorter than the third joint, 

 the others more elongate, pubescent : thorax scarcely one-half 

 broader than long, the sides rounded before the middle, narrowed 

 at the base, the posterior margin obliquely rounded at the angles, 

 the surface extremely minutely and closely punctured ; scutellum 

 triangular ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, subcylindrical, 

 very closely and scarcely more strongly punctured than the thorax : 

 underside piceous ; legs fulvous, rather robust ; the tibiae mucro- 

 nate ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following 

 three joints together; claws appendiculate, the anterior coxal 

 caxities open. 



Hah. Mashonaland {G. Marsliall). 



LtrpEEUS ii^^coNSPictJUS, n. sp. 



Head, antennae, the underside, and legs black ; thorax sub- 

 quadrate, impunctate, obscure testaceous, spotted with fuscous ; 

 elytra very finely and closely punctured, obscure testaceous or 

 fuscous. 



Length 2 lines. 



Elongate and parallel ; the head broad, entirely impunctate and 

 very finely granulate, black ; the frontal tubercles transverse, 

 strongly developed, bounded behind by a deep groove ; the clypeus 

 raised, impunctate, black, edged with testaceous ; labrum pale ; the 

 antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, black, slender, the 



