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genti) elytrisqtie margine et macula rotundata frope hasin inter carinas 5"'"- 



et 7°'^^ cretaceo-tomentoxis : thorace sicut {71 A. Petersii et A. Burchellii grosse 



punctato, elytris costis vtrinque a^igustiorihus octo, interstitiis {sulcis) hand 



pilosis fere triseriatim punctulatis apiceque distincte oblique truncatis. 



Long., 44 mm., <? . 

 Mamboia (Mr. Last). 



The wliite pubescent lateral margin of the elytra is strongly con- 

 trasted with the deep black of the rest of the surface, and forms a 

 sharply-defined border, extending from the 8th rib to the margin, but 

 it does not quite reach the base, and is there accompanied by a small 

 spot lying between the 7th and 8th ribs, and a larger rounded and 

 more densely tomentose spot situated between the 5th and 7th ribs, 

 both of which latter are curved, and the 8th depressed to form a 

 rounded pit for its reception. The punctuation of the thorax and 

 under-side is very similar to that of the two species named. 



Anthia pulcheeeima. — Gracilis, elytris elongato-ovatis convexis apice 

 sinuato-truncatis. Nigra supra opaca suhtus nitida ; capitefere sicut in A. 

 biguttata (Bou.) elongato, oculis paruni prominentibus, conjiuenter punctato 

 fulvo-pubescenti, vertice et occipite medio tmicarinafis sulcis front alibus cur- 

 vatis postice conjunctis interspatioque planato : thorace parvo, dense hand 

 grosse confluenter punctato, vitta mediana rufofulvo pubescenti, postice valde 

 sinuato-angustato, basi verticaliter declivi : elytris vitta lata suturali alter- 

 aque marginali rufo-fulvo pubescentibus, puhe adpressa, elytris singulis inter 

 vittas septemcostatis foveisque duahus ochraceo-pubescentibus, prima discoidali 



reniformi ante medium, secunda obliqua medio prope apicem. 



Long., 32 mm., ^ . 

 Eiver Lujenda, East Africa (Mr. Last). 



This beautiful species differs from all other AntJiice in colours and 

 markings, and in the sinuate-truncate apex of the elytra. In the 

 length of its labrum, however, and general form, it agrees with Anthia 

 better than with CycloJoha, which has similarly-truncated elytra. 

 The tawny or ochreous-red pile which forms the central thoracic vitta 

 and the sutural and marginal vittse of the elytra, is long, dense, and 

 laid transversely on a plane surface, and the ochreous discoidal ^pots 

 lie in fovese which break the continuity of the narrow shining costse, 

 the anterior spot occuj^ying two, and the posterior four, of the costse ; 

 the opaque interstices of the costse form exceedingly deep and sharply- 

 cut grooves. 



Fam. GOP BID JE. 



ScAEAB^US PLATYNOTUS. — Latus viediocriter convexus, supra purpureo- 

 cupreus, viridi-csneo relucens, subopacus ; clypeo angulariter reticulato-punc- 

 tato, vertice aspere grannlato, tuberculo medio p)arvo acuto, genis reticttlatis 



