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base, of the fulvous ground-colour ; scutellum broad, black ; elytra 
short and broad, distinctly punctate-striate to the apex, the inter- 
stices impunctate and flat ; the basal lobe is scarcely prominent at 
the sides, and a somewhat oblique large and irregular spot is placed 
on the shoulder, nearly connected with a lozenge-shaped sutural 
spot below the scutellum ; two other large spots are placed trans- 
versely near, the apex, the outer one being attached to the lateral, 
the inner one to the sutural margin ; both margins are likewise 
narrowly black ; the underside is black, the legs fulvous, and the 
femora are more or less marked with black ; prosternum as broad 
as long, the posterior angles scarcely produced. 
Hah. Sierra Leone ; my collection. 
Evidently belonging to the seventh group of SufFrian, 
but differing from any species contained in it and from 
others, in the shape and position of the spots, taken in con- 
nection v^ith its comparatively small and short shape. 
Gryptocephalus atrocoeruleus , sp. n. 
Bluish-black, opaque, the basal joints of the antennae fulvous ; 
thorax extremely finely and closely punctured ; elytra finely cori- 
aceous, distinctly punctate-striate ; a spot below the shoulders at 
the sides and another at the apex, flavous. Length, 1 line. 
A small species of entirely opaque and somewhat silky appear- 
ance, probably belonging to Suffrian's 19th group, containing 
equally small and nearly similarly coloured species, which have 
however a shining, mostly metallic appearance ; the head of the 
present insect is sculptured like the thorax, bluish-black without 
any depressions with the eyes widely separated ; the antennae only 
extend to the base of the thorax with comparatively short and 
thickened joints, the lower five joints, with the exception of the 
first being fulvous, the others black ; the thorax is moderately 
widened at the middle, the lateral margins are slightly rounded, and 
the entire surface is opaque, finely coriaceous and closely punctured ; 
the scutellum has the apex truncate ; elytra distinctly and 
regularly punctate-striate, the interstices finely coriaceous through- 
out, the punctures near the suture nearly absent ; a somewhat 
triangular flavous spot is placed at the sides below the shoulders 
and a more rounded one at the apex of each elytron ; underside and 
legs a little more shining, the latter rather robust and short, the 
sides of the breast deeply punctured. 
Hah. Hex River. Cape Town Museum, and my 
collection. 
