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Show 1885.] INSECTS F R O M KILIMA-NJARO. 233 Bates's collection. The species has somewhat the general build of marsyas, 01. ; the head is longer, the clypeus not sinuous at the sides ; the thorax rather flatter above, with a prominent, nearly straight ridge in front above the anterior perpendicular truncature ; the anterior angles are as if truncated ; the base is more angularly produced in the middle of the base ; the elytra are scarcely narrowed at the base, &c. TRICHIID^E. C A L O M E T O P U S (?) P L A N A T U S , n. sp. (Plate X V . fig. 3.) Nearly black; the elytra dark testaceous, with the suture, mar^- gins, and a lunate spot near the scutellum smoky black. Antennae and tibiae reddish yellow, the margins of the abdominal segments pale yellow. Head very closely and rather strongly punctured ; the clypeus more finely punctured, a little broader than long, not emar-ginate at the apex, but slightly arcuate, the angles obtuse ; all the margins reflexed. Thorax a very little broader than long, moderately convex, very strongly and rather closely punctured, parallel at the sides to considerably in front of the middle, where it is obliquely narrowed ; the anterior angles nearly right-angles, very slightly prominent; the posterior angles obtusely rounded; the base gently arcuate and margined : on the disk there is a slight impression a little in front of the middle: the sides have the lateral ridge only behind the middle and at the anterior angle; the slightly swollen under flank is thus not separated from the upper surface of the thorax in front of the middle. Scutellum elongate, triangular, strongly punctured. Elytra twice as broad as the thorax, a little longer than broad; flat, with the sides nearly perpendicularly de-flexed ; dull, the suture and sublateral ridge shining: each elytron with six somewhat irregular dorsal lines of dark punctures; the apex closely rugulose. Pygidium closely vermiculate-strigose. Club of the antennae a little longer than all the previous joints taken together. Body beneath and the legs sparingly clothed with yellow hair. Anterior tibiae obtusely tridentate. The posterior tibiae with a triangular tooth a little below the middle; the edge above this tooth with four or five small teeth. Tarsi long and slender ; claws red. Abdomen shining, not very closely but strongly punctured; the basal segment yellow in the middle, margined with yellow at the sides. Length 12 millim. A single example was met with. It is probable that this species may have to be separated from Calometopus on account of the form of the clypeus, which is not emarginate. Never having seen the type of the genus (G. senegalensis), I am unable at present to say in what other way it differs. BUPRESTID^E. A M B L Y S T E R N A J O H N S T O N I , n. sp. (Plate XV. fig. 4.) Size and general form of A. natalensis, Fabr. Golden green, |