1900.] FROM SOUTH ATTD CENTRAL AFRICA. 233 



impunctate ; elytra slightly broader at the base than the thorax, 

 distinctly depressed below the base, strongly punctate-striate, the 

 punctures diminishing in size towards the apex, the sutural and 

 lateral margins narrowly black ; below and the legs fulvous, the 

 breast piceous, the abdominal segments likewise more or less of 

 this colour at the middle, the femora with a strong tooth, the 

 tibia? longitudinally sulcate ; presternum broad, impunctate. 

 Hub. Boma, Congo. (Coll. Belgian Museum and my own.) 

 The eyes in this species are fairly typical of the genus and pro- 

 portionately large and closely approached ; the narrow black margins 

 of the elytra are the principal marks of distinction in this species. 



ElJRYDEMUS MACULIPESTNIS, sp. n. 



Dark fulvous below, flavous above; head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, spotted with piceous ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, 

 the interstices costate, with three piceous spots at the base and 

 three others, more elongate, below the middle ; knees and base of tb$ 

 tibiae black. 



Var. The posterior elytral spots absent. 



Length 4-5 millim. 



Head very coarsely and closely punctured, flavous, the vertex 

 with a large triangular black patch ; clypeus distinctly separated 

 from the face, subquadrate, as strongly punctured as the head; 

 eyes large, rather closely approached, distinctly notched ; antennae 

 fulvous, the basal two or three joints flavous, second and third 

 joints equal ; thorax about twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, 

 the angles slightly tuberculiforin, posterior margin with the median 

 lobe very slightly produced, the surface flavous, impressed with 

 very strong punctures, which at the sides are partly confluent, the 

 disc with two closely approached irregular-shaped elongate piceous 

 spots, the sides with another round and small spot; scutellum 

 fulvous, small; elytra slightly wider than the thorax, flavous, 

 strongly and closely punctate-striate, the interior of the punctures 

 piceous, the interstices longitudinally costate, especiallv so at the 

 sides, the second and fourth interstice with a short blackish spot 

 at the base, a similar spot is placed on the shoulders, in a line 

 with these spots are three others, more elongate, below the middle, 

 the innermost of which is much longer than the others ; the 

 sutural margin is likewise very narrowly black; the under surface 

 fulvous or piceous ; the legs flavous, knees and the base of the 

 tibia; piceous, the posterior femora with a spine, the others 

 unarmed. 



Hah. Boma Sundi, Congo. (Coll. Belgian Museum and my 

 own.) 



This is probably a variable species in regard to coloration, of 

 which I have seen two specimens. From other species of the genus 

 it differs in having only the posterior femora armed with a tooth ; 

 the very strong punctation of the head and thorax and the design 

 of the elytra will at once separate E. maculipennis from any of its 

 ongeners. 



