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terque puactato, area porta triangulare ante scutellum Icevi ; 



elytris punctato-striatis, apice acuminatis, interstitiis antice fere 



planis, versus apicetn angustis et convexis. Long. 25, lat. 



9 mm. 

 Hah. Central or East Sornaliland (1897). One example. Type 

 in British Museum. 



Head, prothorax, legs, aud underside of a purplish-violet colour ; 

 tarsi metallic green above. Elytra black, each with about twenty 

 shallow cupreous pits, which are densely punctured and more 

 or less completely covered with greyish-white pubescence : six or 

 seven of the smallest of these pits are placed at irregular intervals 

 along the third elytral interstice, three of the larger pits on the 

 fifth, three on the seventh, and about seven, diminishing in size 

 from before backwards, along the ninth interstice ; one of the larger 

 pits on the fifth interstice, a little in front of the middle, and one at a 

 short distance behind the middle, encroach upon the sixth interstice 

 and nearly join two correspondingly large pits upon the seventh 

 interstice. 



This species differs from all other African species of the genus 

 known to me in the disposition of the pubescent pits on the elytra, 

 aud is further distinguished by having each of the elytra narrowed 

 to a single point, and not truncate at the apex. 



Elateeid^e. 



Agbypnus longicobnis Gahan, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 11.) 

 Rufo-bninneus, lideo-pilosulus ; antennis nigris, basin elytrorum 

 paullo superantibus, articulo 3° quam 2° hand longiore, articulis 

 4° ad 10 um angulatim sat valde productis ; proihorace quam 

 latiori vix longiori, supra sat valde convexo, lateribus medio 

 paidlo i-otundatis, angulis posticis tenuibus, acutis, divancatis ; 

 elytris teauiter punctato-striatis. Long. 17, lat. 5 mm. 

 Hob. Central or East Sornaliland (1897). One example. 

 Type in British Museum. 



In general appearance this species resembles A. bocandei Cand., 

 but is easily to be distinguished by the black colour and greater 

 length of its antennae. The third joint of the antenna? is a little 

 broader, but not longer, than the second, and the joints from the 

 fourth to the tenth are each produced antero-distally into a strong 

 augulate process ; the disc of the prothorax is more convex and 

 somewhat less densely punctured, aud the sides are more rounded 

 iu the middle than is the case with A. bocandei. 



Dascillidje. 

 Geneceeus nebulosus Gahan, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 9.) 



Piceo-brunneus, cinereo- sat dense pubescens ; elytris brunneo- 

 nebulosis, longitudinaliter snbcostatis ; antennis ( 3 ) fabellatis 

 vel ( 2 ) serratis. Long. 14-16, lat. 4-4| mm. 



Hah. Brit. E. Africa: Samburu, Voi and Ndi (C. S. Betton); 



