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Show 1900.] FROM SOUTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 215 basal margin very narrowly, a spot on the shoulders, another near the suture at the middle, and a narrow transverse irregular-shaped band near the apex black, the extreme lateral margin posteriorly dark fulvous ; below and the legs flavous ; abdomen darker; the anterior legs rather elongate, their tarsi very broad. Hab. Delagoa Bay (67. Marshall). Of this species I received three specimens from Mr. Marshall which show no differences of any importance. There are not many African species of the present genus which have a similarly marked thorax, the nearest being perhaps C. denticulatus; in the present species, however, the dark portion of the thorax is not black but dark fulvous or piceous ; the number and position of the elytral spots also differ from any of its allies. CRYPTOCEPHALUS SEVERINT, sp. n. Black, above and tbe legs flavous, vertex of head black; thorax impunctate, with five black stripes ; elytra finely and irregularly punctured, with a subsutural and lateral black longitudinal band, the latter divided. Length 8 millim. Broad and robust ; the head impunctate, slightly depressed, flavous, the vertex with a narrow transverse black band ; eyes very broadly emarginate; clypeus concave at its anterior margin ; antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, flavous, the terminal five joints widened; thorax subcylmdrical, with strongly deflexed sides, the middle widened, the surface entirely impunctate, flavous, with five equally distant black spots or bands, the middle one narrow and extending from the base to the apex, the others much shorter and abbreviated at each end, the outer one the shortest and placed on the lateral margin; scutellum black, broad, its apex truncate; elytra not wider at the base than the thorax, slightly constricted at the sides near the middle, the punctuation very fine, placed in double rows near the suture, but irregularly at the sides, the last row placed at some distance from the lateral margin, the latter likewise accompanied by a stronger row of punctures ; each elytron with two longitudinal black bands, the first placed near the suture of slightly oblique direction, abbreviated below the middle, the other placed on the shoulder, interrupted at the middle aud not extending much further than the subsutural band; underside black, clothed with very short pubescence, the coxae and the last abdominal segment flavous at the base ; pygidium flavous with a central black spot; prosternum broad, pubescent, its base produced at the angles into a blunt point. Hab. Loulouabourg, Congo. (Coil. Belgian Mus. and m y own.) One of the largest African species, and easily recognized by the svstem of its coloration. CRYPTOCEPHALUS STRIGICOLLIS, sp. n. Obscure fulvous; antennae (the basal joints excepted) black; thorax fulvous, closely longitudinally strigose ; elytra strongly 15* |
