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Psyche 
[March- June 
THREE NEW AFRICAN SPECIES OF 
MORDELLID BEETLES 
By Eugene Ray 
Chicago, Illinois 
The following descriptions were made from a lot of eleven speci- 
mens collected in the Sudan region of Africa by A. P. G. Michel- 
more and R. C. M. Darling and sent to the writer by Sir Guy 
A. K. Marshall, Director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, 
British Museum (Natural History). The types of the new species 
hereinafter described are temporarily placed in the Chicago 
Natural History Museum, while para types remain in the collec- 
tion of the writer. 
Tomoxia abrupta new species 
Form short, sides subparallel, derm generally black, with the 
following exceptions: anterior and intermediate legs and seven 
distal segments of antennae fuscocastaneous; four proximal seg- 
ments of antennae, palpi, front, and mesal margin of mandibles 
castaneous. Body densely covered with fine recumbent pu- 
bescence, a solid golden on head and pronotum, black on scutel- 
lum, an irregular golden area covering basal third of elytra, en- 
closing an irregular black area on either side of scutellum near 
base, an irregular, transverse, golden band behind middle, reach- 
ing suture but not middle and connected with basal area by a 
short sutural line, with intervening and subsequent areas blackish- 
pubescent; ventral surface blackish-pubescent, except for the 
following whitish areas: meso- and metasternum, 1st and 2nd 
abdominal segments (except at apical margin) , and third segment 
along basal margin. 
( $ ). Antennae 1.4 mm. long, reaching metasternum; segments 
I and 2 equal; 3 distinctly longer than 4, latter broadest at apex; 
5 as long as 3, but broader; 6-10 strongly serrate, as broad as long; 
II one-half longer than 10, inner margin and apex rounded, 
broadest at middle. Terminal segment of maxillary palpi en- 
larged, with form of a scalene triangle, sides and angles all 
strongly rounded, mesal margin thickest, divided longitudinally, 
