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ferruginous at the tip, other joints greyish ochreotu at the base, brown 

 at the tip; thorax above in the- middle with a very wide 'lark Immn 

 hand occupying the greater part of upper surface ; it has a yellowish 



patch on its hinder portion ; above the spine there is n short line of 



a yellowish ferruginous hue, between that and the dorsal patch is a 

 narrow short obscure line ; the elytra are elongated ami of a grizzlv 

 grey; the shoulder is tinged with ferruginous; before the middle 

 there is a large squarish brown spot on the suture common to both 

 elytra, it is margined on the side with fe r r u g in ous ; before the tip 

 there is a transverse blackish-brown hand, which at the suture ex- 

 tends to the tip: the under side is griseous, the abdominal joints 

 marked behind with blackish-brown ; legs brown and griseous, tin- 

 soles of tarsi and the joints tinged with ferruginous yellow. 



Length 10 1 lines. 



Hub. Sierra Leone (Rev. D. F. Moryan). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



MoNOHAMMUS OBFTJSCATUS, n. S. 



M. fuscogriseus, antennis canescentibus, capite medio lined fan, 

 thurace medio linea Icevi abbreviata et vittis duabus nigro- 

 fuscis obscuris ; elytris busi scubriusculis, singulis maculis 

 duabvs nigro-fuscis una basali ad suturam recta, altera <td 

 medium subcurvutu sericeu, apice subtruncutis et subemur- 

 ginatis ; corpore subtus pedibusque ferrugineo-cinereis. 



Allied to H. sublineatus. The antennas are of a greyish hue ; 

 the thorax has an abbreviated smooth line down the middle, on each 

 side of it is an obscure vitta of a deepish brown ; the base of the elytra 

 is somewhat scabrous; the apex is somewhat truncated and slightly 

 notched ; each has two dark brown marks, the first is straight and 

 rather near the suture, the other is silky and somewhat curved 

 near the middle; the legs and under side are of a greyish ferru- 

 ginous. 



Length 10 to 11 lines. 



Hub. China (Hong-Kong) (J. C. Bowring, Esq.). Coll. B. M. 



Monoiia.m MUS ASPERULUS, n. s. 



M. r/riseo-fuscus, ehjtrorum humeri.* acutiusculis, bu.si Medio 

 elerato, busi jilaga magna fusca communi ; ehjtris jio.st medium 



partem, macula seric&M>elutina Jusca, an/ire fissa, pedibus et 



corpore .subtus nigro punctutis. 



Of a greyish-brown; head with scattered black punctures ; thorax 



on tin- upper side with five small tubercles, one in the middle larger 

 than the others, the front and hack part ofthethomi ami two lines 



on the back with black punctures; elytra with a -hurt longitudinal 

 elevation at the base, serrated on the top, a large triangular brown 

 mark at the base, common to both elytra, beyond the middle of each 



a deep brown velvet-like mark deeply notched in ftonl ; the suture 

 before the tip is bordered with deep sOkj brown; the general -ur 

 face is somewhat roughened and punctured . the legs an. I underside 



