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the outer sides are sinuate behind, the lateral part of the disk is 

 depressed, there is a broad basal impression with a median im- 

 pressed line above the base, and the surface is finely and remotely 

 punctulate, each puncture bearing a long greyish hair ; elytra punc- 

 tulate like the prothorax but the pubescence is longer ; abdominal 

 segments shiny, glabrous, except the last one, which is pubescent,, 

 second one simple. 



Length Si mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere). G. A. K. Marshall. 



MYRMEDONIA JUCUNDA, n. sp. 



Reddish, with the frontal part, a broadly triangular patch extend- 

 ing from the shoulders of the elytra to the apex of the suture, and 

 the four alternate abdominal segments black, it is clothed all over 

 with a dense greyish pubescence ; frontal part simple in both sexes, 

 deeply but not very closely punctate ; antennae reaching beyond the 

 humeral part of the elytra, second joint shorter by one-third than 

 the third, all the others are obconical and increase gradually in 

 w r idth, the two penultimate ones being transverse, and the last one 

 not as long as these two taken together, the intermediate joints from 

 the fourth to the tenth inclusive are ferruginous, but the apical one 

 is as reddish as the three basal ones ; prothorax broader than long, 

 broadly rounded laterally in front, slightly sinuate in the posterior 

 part, the outer angles of which are plainly sharp, the disk is 

 impressed obliquely laterally, and deeply so in the centre of the base 

 which is arcuate, this impression is continued as a longitudinal im- 

 pressed line, which disappears however in front, the surface is very 

 deeply and closely punctate ; elytra plainly broader at the shoulders 

 than the prothorax at its widest part, covered with deep, somewhat 

 scabrose punctures, w r hich are slightly denser in the sutural dorsal 

 part than on the sides ; all the abdominal segments are very closely 

 and deeply punctate and briefly pubescent, the second segment is 

 simple in the male, but the last one is broadly excavated at the apex. 



Length 5 mm. : width li mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Dunbrody, Enon). Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 



MYRMEDONIA GRAVIDULA, n. sp. 



Testaceous-yellow, with the head infuscate, clothed on the head, 

 prothorax and elytra with a short, dense, appressed flavescent 

 pubescence, head with a conical elevation in the anterior part of the 

 frontal part which is punctulate, and the pubescence is not quite 



