1893.] FKOM BEITISH CBNTEAL AFEICA. 743 



sericeo, metasterni ahdominisque medio suhglabro. Long. 28, 



lat. 9 mm. ; long. scutelU 3 m)ii. 

 Violet-coloured, with the le^^s and antennae black. Pronotum 

 and elytra covered ^ith a dark velvety pile, scarcely dense enough 

 to obscure the dark-blue and violet colour of the derm except 

 near the base of the elytra and on the middle of the pronotum, with 

 a narrow glabrous and sparsely punctured band extending for some 

 distance along the middle of each elytron between the horizontal 

 sutiu'al region and the more oblique lateral portion. The disk of 

 the prothorax may be observed in places, where the pile is rubbed 

 away, to be transversely wrinkled. The scutellum is rather 

 elongated, much attenuated behind, and transversely rugose above. 

 The prosternal process is very feebly and obtusely tubercled 

 behind. The fifth and sixth ventral segments of the abdomen in 

 the male are somewhat arcuately emarginate behind. The inter- 

 mediate femora each bear a blunt tooth or rather tubercle on the 

 underside near the apex ; on the anterior femora the apical tooth 

 is still more obsolete. The male antennae are a little longer than 

 the body. 



39. Philematium NiTiDiPENifB, Gahan. 



Philematium nitidijienne, Grahan, Trans. Eut. ISoc. Loud. 1890, 

 p. 307. 



One example in a fragmentary condition. 



40. Antjbis feontalis, sp. n. 



Linearis, cJialybeato-cyaneus ; capitis fronte supra dense punctata, 



epistomo {a fronte linea transversa diviso) sparsius punctato ; 



prothorace sat fortiter denseque punctato ; elytris sxibtilius con- 



Jiuenter punctatis, utrispie plagis trihus jlavis — una humerali, 



secunda ante medium, tertia pone medium ; pygidio apice sat 



late rotundato, medio obsolete emarginato ; antennis versus 



apicem modice incrassatis. Long. 15-17 mm. S $ • 



From A. clavicornis, Pabr., and allied forms the present species 



is chiefly to be distinguished by its less incrassated antennae and 



by the punctuation of the head and prothorax. The front of 



the head bears a tolerably distinct transverse line across the 



middle, which divides it into an upper more thickly punctured 



portion, and a loA\"er more sparsely punctured epistomal region ; 



the vertex also between the eyes is very sparingly punctured. The 



punctures of the prothorax are close and somewhat confluent on 



the lateral portions of the disk ; but those along the middle of the 



disk and on the sides of the prothoi'ax are less closely placed and 



have distinct intervals between them. 



In clavicornis, Fabr., and scalaris, Pasc, the head and prothorax 

 are more closely and somewhat more strongly punctured. The 

 lower or epistomal portion of the front of the head is almost or 

 quite as thickly punctured as the upper portion, and there is as a 

 rule no distinct impressed line separating the two. The ]n-othorax 

 is very closely and pretty uniformly punctured. 



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