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and in the presence of short transverse ridges running from the 

 dorsal carina of each elytron towards the suture. 



Sepidium bilobatum Gahan, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 14.) 



Pube rufulo-cervina dense obtectum : elytris supra plus minusve 

 cinereis ; protliorace antice valde tuberculato, tuberculo crasso 

 antrorsum directo et b'dobato ; elytris dense fortiter que punctatis, 

 utriusque disco tuberculato, tuberculis in seriebus duabus irregu- 

 lar ibus ordinatis. Long. 17, lat. 6 mm. 

 Hub. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One example. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Closely covered with a reddish-fawn-coloured pubescence, with 

 the disc of each elytron ashy grey along the middle. Prothorax 

 with a large tubercle directed almost horizontally forwards from 

 the anterior part of the disc ; this tubercle is distinctly bilobed 

 in front, each lobe being rounded at the extremity ; each side of 

 the prothorax carinate, the carina dilated to form a tubercle just 

 behind the middle. Elytra densely and strongly punctured ; the 

 disc of each with a number of sharply raised tubercles forming 

 two irregular, longitudinal series. 



Sepidium crassicaudatum Gestro. 

 Somaliland (1895 or 1897). Nine examples. 



Viet a sp. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. 



Vietomorpha foveipennis Fairm. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. 



Micrantereus sp. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). One male example. 



Micrantereus asidoides Fairm. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. 



Amarygmus sp. 



Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One mutilated example. 



Praogena nigra Gahan, sp. n. 



Nigra ; capite proilwraceque crebre p>xmctatis et opacis ; elytris 

 nitidis, seriatim haud fortiter punctatis , inter stitiis planis, sparse 

 minutissime punctxdatis. Long. 13, lat. 44 mm. 



Hub. Somaliland (T. Greenfield and C. V. A. Peel, 1895 or 1897). 



Type in British Museum, co-type in Hope Collection. 



Entirely black, with the elytra somewhat glossy and the 

 rest of the surface more or less opaque. Head and prothorax 

 closely punctured, the latter a little broader than long, slightly 

 rounded at the side3. Elytra each with nine rows of rather small 

 punctures, the first row (that next the suture) being very short ; 



