1890.] coleopterA from centrAl africa. 4S7 



stated that the femora were sometimes toothed and sometimes 

 simple. The toothed femora are now known to be a generic 

 character, which I believe does not occur in any American species 

 of Callichroma and its immediate allies. 



Ettporus strangttlattjs, Serville, var. pueptjreipes. 



A forma typica differt thorace supra viridi-aurato, parte antico 

 cum occipite, antennis pedibusque jmrpinx'O-ciipreis. 



As E. stranrjulatiis is known to vary in colour (conf. Qaedenfeldt, 

 Berl. ent. Zeits. 1883, p. 144), the present may be one of its 

 varieties. In the sculpture and colour of the elytra it oifers no 

 difference, tt seems, however, judging frorh the scanty material 

 before me, to be a narrower form with stronger anterior strangu- 

 lation of the thorax, and the scape of the antennae is confusedly 

 scabrous rather than transversely rugose as in the typical form. 



Phkosyne brevicoknis, Fabr. 



A species widely distributed along the West-African coasts from 

 Sierra Leone to Angola. 



Clttus conteactifrons, n. sp, 



Subgen. Mecometopo proxime affinis ; frons suhelongata, fere 

 verticalis, inter cavitates antennarum angustissima. Mediocriter 

 elongatus, cylindricus,fusco-aureus-, late sericeo-jJuhescens ; ehjtris 

 dimidio basali nigris tttrinque linea curvata a scutello versus 

 latera plagu iriarigulari suhbasati signattiraque hairiata sid>- 

 humeruli Jlavescenti-auratis, fascia obscura posteriore cineras- 

 cente ; mesosterno segmentoque primo ventrali aureo-pilosis. 

 Long. 10 millim. 



One example. The species seems referable to a section or sub- 

 genus of CJlytus near Mecometopus. The forehead is rather long and 

 subverticali plane; with widely open autennal cavities, which leave 

 only a narrow space between ; of antenniferous tubercles no trace. 

 The antenna3 are about two thirds the length of the body, the joints 

 withoiit spines, froih the fourth to the nihth shortened dnd thickened, 

 tenth and eleventh rapidly narrowing. The thorax is subglobular, 

 slightly narrowed anteriorly^ very convex and wider than the elytra ; 

 it is free from crests and markings, the long tawny-silky pile laid 

 and convergent. The elytra are parallel, flexuoso-truncate at the 

 apfex, the otiter angle produced in a lohgish spine. The hind legs 

 are only moderately elongated, the femora not thicker than the 

 others, armed at the apex with two very short spiheS; 



Ptycholjemfs siMfticicoLLts, Thomisoil. 



A species originally described from the Gaboon. 



Paristemia theorini, Aurivillius, Entom. Tidskt; 1886, p. 89 

 {Amphidesmus) . 



One example, differing from the description of Prof. Aurivillius 

 tinly in the black siltnral vitta near the base being expanded behind 



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