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cato, (lisoo inter coxas transversim clcvato ; epistcrno antico, cum 

 angulo autico uou libero, margine antico recto. 



Type Farascela crihrata, Scliauf . 



The insect on which I have founded the present genus differs 

 from Fseudocolaspis (in which group it was placed by Schaufuss) 

 in having appendiculated claws, notched hinder tibia3, and also in 

 the form of the prothoracic episternum : from Eiihracliis it differs 

 by the first two characters, and from Scelodonta by the absence 

 of the deep frontal grooves and also in the appendiculated claws. 



G-enus Cueiridea, n. gen. 



Corpus subelongatum, convexum, dorso glabrura. Caput exsertuni, 

 facie brevi, perpeudiculari ; oculis prominentibus ; antennis gracilibiis, 

 liliformibus ; clypeo subangulato-emarginato. Thorax latitudini longi- 

 tudine a^qiiali^subglobosus, subcylindricus, lateribus distincte margina- 

 tis, serrulatis. Scutellum pentagoniim. Elytra thorace multo latiova, 

 oblonga, punctato-striata. Pedes mediocres, tibiis intermediis extus 

 ad apicem emarginatis ; unguiculis dentatis. Prosternum anguste ob- 

 longum ; episterno antico margine apicali recto, angulo antero-interno 

 non libero. 



'Type CTieiridea Chapuisi. 



Nearly allied to Scelodonta, separated by the absence of the 

 supraorbital grooves and by the serrulate sides of the thorax. 



Cheiridea Chapuisi, n. sp. Subelongata, couvexa, nigra, nitida, 

 supra cyaneo vix tincta; pedibus piceis labro, tarsis autennisque 

 pallida piceo-fulvis ; thorace subgloboso, crebre foveolato-punctato ; 

 elytris convexis, infra basin transversim excavatis et rugulosis, regu- 

 lariter punctato-striatis, interspatiis elevato-costatis. Long. H lin. 



Sah. Sierra Leone. 



Head distinctly broader than long, rugose ; clypeus not sepa- 

 rated from the face, its anterior margin subangulate, emarginatc ; 

 antennse slender, rather more than half the length of the body, 

 the three upper joints stained with piceous ; basal joint subcla- 

 vate, curved, thickened gradually towards the apex, the second 

 oblong, rather more than half the length of the first, third to the 

 fifth slender, each equal in length to the first. Thorax not longer 

 than broad ; sides rounded, the lateral margin denticulate, all the 

 angles mucronate ; upper surface subglobose, closely covered with 

 deep round punctures, interspaces nitidous, minutely granulose. 

 Scutellum longer than broad, pentangular, the lateral angles 



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