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Show 30 MR. 0. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23» and in the presence of short transverse ridges running from the dorsal carina of each elvtron towards the suture. SEPIDIUM BILOBATUM Gahan, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 14.) Pube rufido-cervina dense obtectum: elytris supra plus minusve cinereis ; prothorace antice valde tuberculato, tuberculo crasso antrorsum directo et bilobato ; elytris dense fortiterque punctatis, utriusque disco tuberculato, tuberculis in seriebus cluabus irregu-laribus ordinatis. Long. 17, lat. 6 mm. Hab. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One example. Type in British Museum. Closely covered with a reddish-faw n-eoloured pubescence, with the disc of each elytron ashy grey along the middle. Prothorax with a large tubercle directed almost horizontally forwards from the anterior part of the disc; this tubercle is distinctly bilobed in front, each lobe being rounded at the extremity ; each side of the prothorax carinate, the carina dilated to form a tubercle just behind the middle. Elytra densely and strongly punctured ; the disc of each with a number of sharply raised tubercles forming two irregular, longitudinal series. SEPIDIUM CRASSICAUDATUM Gestro. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). Nine examples. VIETA sp. Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. VIETOMORPHA FOYEiPENNis Fairm. Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. MlCRANTEREUS Sp. Central or East Somaliland (1897). One male example. MICRANTEREUS ASIDOIDES Fairm. Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. AMARYGMUS sp. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One mutilated example. PRAOGENA NIGRA Gahan, sp. n. Nigra; capite prothoraceque crebre punctatis et opacis; elytris nitidis, seriatim haud fortiter punctatis, interstitiis planis, sparse minutissime punctulatis. Long. 13. lat. 4 | mm. Hab. Somaliland (T. Greenfield and C. V.A. Peel, 1895 or 1897). Type in British Museum, co-type in Hope Collection. Entirely black, with the elytra somewhat glossy and the rest of the surface more or less opaque. Head and prothorax closely punctured, the latter a little broader than long, slightly rounded at the sides. Elytra each with nine rows of rather small punctures, the first row (that next the suture) being very short |