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the latter has not the three conspicuous longitudinal furrows, the 

 prothorax is rounded laterally, and the anterior angles are not con- 

 spicuously projecting as in A. dainam ; the scrobiculate fovese are 

 of nearly the same pattern, but they are more regular in A. damara 

 and the dividing walls are granulose, which is not the case in 

 A. scrobipennis. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland. (Stockholm Museum.) 



ADESMIA (ONYMACHRYS) LASKEKI, n. sp. 



Black, shining, anterior margin of prothorax with a conspicuous 

 band of yellowish-white hairs ; body elongato-ovate, one-third wider 

 in the female than in the male, legs piceous-red ; head punctulate ; 

 prothorax one-third wider than long, straight laterally, but wider at 

 the base than at apex in the female, and sparingly aciculate ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, and in the female ampliato-ovate, half wider across 

 the median part than across the base in the male, and once and a 

 half in the female, convex in the anterior part, dehiscent from the 

 middle to the apex where they are acuminate, briefly granular and 

 with three granular costules obliterated, however, in the posterior 

 declivity, the granules or minute tubercles are not coalescing ; under 

 side with the normal plication ; legs very long, very slender. 



This species is very different from any of its South African con- 

 geners. It is more slender, in spite of the ampliation of the elytra 

 across the median part ; the sculpture of the latter part is similar to 

 that of A. (On/pn.) tenuegranata, Fairm. ; this latter species is, how- 

 ever, much more globose. 



I propose to name this species after its captor, the late Dr. Lasker, 

 who lost his life by drowning near the very place where he dis- 

 covered it. 



Length 9-12 mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Angra Pequena). 



STEXOCARA JURGATRIX, n. sp. 



Female : Black, shining, prothorax with a very narrow fringe of 

 silky white pubescence, head with an impression on each side near 

 the antennal crest, and a central and deeper frontal one, covered 

 with deep, elongated punctures ; prothorax narrowed in the anterior 

 part and much broader in the posterior, with the sides hardly 

 ampliated, nearly equal in length to the width across the apical, 

 but much shorter than across the basal part, sparsely punctulate ; 



