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bands, one at each side, not extending to the anterior margin ; 
scutellum broad, black, its apex truncate ; elytra with deep and 
regular punctured striag, the shoulders moderately prominent, the 
interstices impunctate, slightly convex at the sides, flavous, with a 
narrow sutural band, forming a slight angle before the middle and 
a widened spot at the apex, which does not extend to the end of the 
elytra ; a broader longitudinal band is placed between the fourth 
and the eighth rows of punctures which extends downwards as far 
as the sutural band and has its inner margin rather irregularly 
notched ; the extreme lateral margin is likewise black from the 
middle to the apex ; the epipleuraa are flavous and the breast black, 
finely sericeous ; abdomen and legs dark fulvous, presternum broad, 
yellow, its basal margin with a blunt tooth at each side. 
Hah. Abyssinia ; my collection. 
Evidently closely allied in coloration to C. vittiger, 
Suff., and C. contrarius, Chap.^ but differing from the 
first in its larger size, the black, not blue, colour of the 
elytral bands, and other particulars, and from C. con- 
trarius, likewise from Abyssinia, in the smooth, not 
aciculate-punctate elytral interstices, the broader lateral 
stripe, the colour of the head, etc. I possess a single 
female specimen. 
GryptocephaUis clythroides, sp. n. 
Short and robust, reddish-fulvous, the terminal joints of the 
antennae black, the mandibles of the strongly developed ; thorax 
very closely punctured ; elytra distinctly punctate-striate with 
closely and finely punctured interstices. Length, 1 line. 
(J . Head closely and strongly punctured, broad, the mandibles 
large and robust, the left one strongly thickened and angular, the 
clypeus projecting at each side into a long point at the base of the 
mandibles ; the antennas short, the lower five joints fulvous, the 
rest fuscous, widened, broader than long ; the thorax with slightly 
rounded sides, not much narrowed in front, the surface closely and 
strongly punctured, fulvous, with two ill-defined darker coloured 
transverse patches, the edge of the posterior margin black ; 
scutellum broader than long, pale fulvous ; elytra short, scarcely 
narrov/ed posteriorly, rather strongly and regularly punctate-striate, 
the punctures piceous, the interstices everywhere finely punctured ; 
underside and legs coloured as the upper surface, presternum 
subquadrate, its posterior margin straight. 
Hah. Congo River; my collection. 
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