606 Addenda. 



narrower and more elongate than in P. notata, and the head is also 

 narrower. Length 21 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 

 Hab. Mozambique (Tembe). 



Tribe SCAEITIDES. 



Group CLIVINID^. 



Gen. SPAEOSTES, Putz., 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. x., 1866, p. 27. 



Ligula horny, almost pyramidal, carinate in the middle and ha^dng 

 two closely- set apical setae ; paraglossae much longer than the ligula, 

 narrow and sharp ; third joint of palpi compressed, twice as long as 

 the last which is attenuate on each side, truncate and a little ampliate 

 past the median part ; maxillae well developed, curved at apex and 

 sharp ; the three joints of the maxillary palpi nearly of equal length, 

 this second one thick, subcylindrical, the third narrower and clubbed ; 

 lateral lobes of Inentum obliquely truncate, and a little longer than 

 the triangular, sublobate median tooth ; mandibles broad, plane ; 

 antennae short, thickened, basal joint equal in length to the two 

 following, the second one conical and carinate, the others from the 

 fifth to the tenth transverse ; labrum transverse, bisinuate ; ch-peus 

 truncate, foliation (alae) prominent ; head convex, eyes projecting ; 

 prothorax transverse, rounded at base ; elytra subcylindrical, 

 truncate at base with the shoulders dentate, deeply sinuate before 

 the apex, striate with the scutellary stria very short ; anterior 

 tibiae with long digits, intermediate ones with spurs ; first joint of 

 the tarsi of the same length as the three following ; claws long, 

 slender ; no wings under the elytra. 



This genus, with which I am not acquainted, is represented in 

 Northern China and Siam, and occurs also in Africa. 



Sparostes africanus, Putz., 



Stett. Entom. Zeit., vol. xxxvi., 1876, p. 117. 



Black, very shining ; palpi and antennae brown ; clypeus truncate, 

 the lateral lobes broadly rounded ; head with a long, narrow median 

 fovea, and multistrigose longitudinally on each side ; eyes prominent, 

 not distinctly petiolate ; prothorax very briefly transverse, parallel 

 laterally, emargioate in the anterior part with the angles prominent 

 and rounded ; rounded before the base, convex on the upper side, 

 sulcate transversely in front and without any basal foveolse ; elytra 

 elongate, truncate at base, with the humeral part subdentate, 

 narrowed at apex, punctato-striate with the third interval trifoveolate, 

 the foveae being behind the third stria ; the scutellary stria is long 

 and parallel with the suture. 



