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Carcinops togoensis sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexa, nigra, nitida; capite basin minute foveolata; 

 thorace parte valde punctata; elyfris striis 1 — 5 integris, suturali 

 duplicata et dimidiata ; prosterno in medio carinato. — Long. 3 mill. 



Oval, convex, black, shining; the head smooth with a small 

 fovea in the middle close to the base, marginal Stria complete and 

 wellmarked; the thorax, marginal Stria also wellmarked, surface, 

 except the area before the scutellum, has large and deep, somewhat 

 scattered, punctures and on each side of a scutellar fovea there 

 are punctures along the basal edge; the elytra, Striae l — 5 complete 

 and punctate, 4 — 5 being punctiform near the apices, the sutural 

 Stria is represented by 2 parallel Striae apical but reaching the 

 middle, the outer one is punctiform; the propygidium is transver- 

 sely punctate like the thorax; the pygidium smooth; the prosternum 

 lateral Striae sinuous and complete with the keel markedly carinate 

 especially behind the anterior lobe; the mesosternum in somewhat 

 widely emarginate, Stria complete anteriorly and after passing the 

 suture of the metasternum the lateral Striae are parallel to each 

 other, both the sternal plates are smooth; the legs, the anterior 

 tibiae are 4 or 5 dentate, the four denticulations on the edge being 

 equidistant (a character not usual in Carcinops), intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae somewhat dilated from behind the base but rounded 

 off at the tarsal end. The legs are formed like those of the allied 

 genus Dendrophibis. 



I do not think the form of the tibiae are sufficient to separate 

 this species from Carcinops. 



Trypeticus africanns sp. n. 



Cylindricus, sitbelongatus, brunnevs, nitidus ; capite haud striato, 

 rostro truncato; thorace vix qnadrato ; etytris purum brevibus ; 

 pygidio concavo ; prosterno (basi excepta) marginato, utrinque trun- 

 cato. — Long. 2|- mill, 



Cylindrical, somewhat elongate, brown, shining; the head, 

 face feebly impressed, rostrum rather short, somewhat broad and 

 anteriorly truncate, less closely punctared than the head punctures 

 somewhat aciculate, between the eyes there is a small median 

 fovea; the thorax nearly quadrate with the anterior angles shortly 

 arched, lateral Stria well-marked, surface clearly and somewhat 

 densely punctured; the elytra about as long as the head and thorax 

 together, punctured less densely than the thorax; the propygidium 

 punctured like the thorax; the pygidium, outline like a reversed 



