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densely punctate. Elytra gradually widened from the base for nearly two-thirds of 

 their length, then narrowed towards the apex ; the surface very distinctly wrinkled all 

 over, the ridges have generally a somewhat transverse direction, but are irregular in 

 their course and become more or less convoluted. The antennas of the male extend a 

 little past the base of the elytra, and the terminal joint is not longer than the 

 penultimate. 



Length lr5-16 ; breadth at base of elytra 5^-5-|- mm. 



Hab. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-13,000 ft. 



Lagria spp. 



Four other smaller species of Lagria were collected in the Mubuku Valley, 

 E. lluwenzori. 



Family Meloid^. 

 Meloe monticola Kolbe, Deuts.-Ost-Afrika, Coleopt. p. 256 (1897). 

 Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-13,000 ft. ; Kilimanjaro, 1500 metres, and 

 Usambara, 



Mylabris amplectexs Gerst. Archiv fiir Naturgesch. xxxvii. 1, p. 67 ; v. d. Decken's 

 Reisen in Ost-Afrika, iii. 2, p. 207, pi. 10. fig 9. 

 Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft. 



Mylabris (Coryna) apicicornis Guer. Lefebr. Voy. en Abyssinia, p. 324, pi. 5. fig. 6 

 (184G). 



Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft. ; Abyssinia, British and German East Africa. 



M. dorsalis Gerst. appears to me to be only a slight variety of this species, dis- 

 tinguished by the ferruginous-brown colour of the anterior two-thirds of the elytra. 



Mylabris (Decatoma) mubukuexsis, sp. n. 



Black, slightly tinged with steel-blue ; sparsely furnished with longish yellowish- 

 grey hairs ; elytra marked each with two longitudinal yellow bands and two yellow 

 spots — one band, mid-dorsal, extends in a straight line from the base for nearly two- 

 thirds of the length of the elytron and is slightly expanded outwardly at its hinder 

 end, one of the two spots is in a line with this band and about midway between it and 

 the apex of the elytron ; the second band runs along the outer margin of the elytron 

 for slightly more than half its length from the base, and the second spot is halfway 

 between its hinder end and the apex. Antennae black, the first five joints nitid, the 

 last five somewhat dull, gradually thickened, the tenth joint almost as long as the 



