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cato, disco inter coxas transversim elevato ; episferno antico, cum 

 angulo aatico non libero, margine antico recto. 



Type Parascela cribrata, Scliauf . 



The insect on wbicli I liave founded tlae present genus differs 

 from Fseudocolaspis (in which group it was placed by Schaufuss) 

 in having appendiculated claws, notched hinder tibiae, and also in 

 the form of the prothoracic episternum : from Muhrachis it differs 

 by the first two characters, and from Scelochnta by the absence 

 of the deep frontal grooves and also in the appendiculated claws. 



G-enus CheieideAj n. gen. 



Corpus subelongatum, convexum, dorso glabrum. Caput exsertum, 

 facie brevi, perpendiculari ; oculis prominentibus ; antennis gracilibus, 

 filiformibus ; clypeo subangulato-emai'ginato. Thorax latitudini longi- 

 tudine sequali, subglobosus, subcylindricus, lateribus distincte margina- 

 tis, serrulatis. Scutellum pentagonum. Elytra thorace multo latiora, 

 oblonga, punctato-striata. Pedes mediocres, tibiis intermediis extiis 

 ad apicem emarginatis ; unguiculis dentatis. Prosternum anguste ob- 

 longum ; episterno antico margine apicali recto, angulo antero-interno 

 non libero. 



Type Cheiridea Chapuisi. 



Nearly allied to Scehdonta, separated by the absence of the 

 supraorbital grooves and by the serrulate sides of the thorax. 



Cheiridea Chapuisi, n. sp. Subelongata, convexa, nigra, nitida, 

 supra cyaneo vix tincta; pedibus piceis labro, tarsis antennisque 

 pallide piceo-fulvis ; thorace subgloboso, crebre foveolato-punctato ; 

 elytris eonvexis, infra basin transversim excavatis et rugulosis, regu- 

 lariter punctato-striatis, interspatiis elevato-costatis. Long. H lin. 

 Sal. Sierra Leone. 



Head distinctly broader than long, rugose ; clypeus not sepa- 

 rated from the face, its anterior margin subangulate, emarginate ; 

 antennae slender, rather more than half the length of the body, 

 the three upper joints stained with piceous ; basal joint subcla- 

 vate, curved, thickened gradually towards the apes, the second 

 oblong, rather more than half the length of the first, third to the 

 fifth slender, each equal in length to the first. Thorax not longer 

 than broad ; sides rounded, the lateral margin denticulate, all the 

 angles mucronate ; upper surface subglobose, closely covered with 

 deep round punctures, interspaces nitidous, minutely granulose. 

 Scutellum longer than broad, pentangular, the lateral angles 



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