2i2s Annals of flic South African Museum. 



elytra strongly ampliated and dilated in the centre, moderately con- 

 vex in the anterior part, strongly dehiscent from past the median 

 and quite declivous at the apex, on each side are three rows of 

 sharp, conical, closely set tubercles, including the juxta-marginal 

 one, and three alternate rows of smaller yet equally sharp ones the 

 first of which is between the suture and the first dorsal row, the 

 suture is also sharply tuherculate from the median part to the apex 

 and the outer margin very strongly serrate, the epipleural fold is 

 foveolate and the intervals between all the dorsal rows are sprinkled 

 with sharp granules ; legs long, slender ; under side as in all the 

 other species of Stenocara. 



The nearest ally of .S'. jnnjatrir is .S. loncjipes, but the elytra are 

 much more broadly ampliated and more depressed than in that 

 species, the tubercles of the three higher dorsal rows as well as of 

 those of the intervening ones are much sharper, much more closely 

 set, and therefore much more numerous. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 9f mm. 



Hiib. Namaqualand (Ograbies). E. Trimen. 



TIJIBK ASIDINI. 



H^EMUS, n. gen. 



Mentum long, one-third longer than broad, slightly rounded 

 laterally at apex, emarginate, deeply impressed on each side, labial 

 palpi inserted on the inner face, but the two apical joints project 

 beyond the edge of the mentum, the last joint is sub-fusiform, 

 broadly truncate ; the two lobes of the maxilhe are stiffly bristly, 

 last joint of the long maxillary palpi cup-shaped, broadly truncate ; 

 left mandible trifid ; antennae reaching the base of the prothorax, 

 bristly except the four last apical joints which are briefly pubescent, 

 joints third to seventh elongated, fourth as long as fifth and sixth taken 

 together, seventh a little shorter than the preceding, eighth sub-conical, 

 ninth and tenth transverse, eleventh sub-turbinate, closely fitting 

 against the tenth ; labrum transverse, emarginate, epistoma incised in 

 front, genue strongly projecting beyond the very narrow transverse 

 eyes ; prothorax deeply incised laterally beyond the median part which 

 is therefore strongly angular, straight along the base, with the angles 

 sharp ; no scutellum ; elytra oblongo-ovate, not much convex, epi- 

 pleural fold broad ; legs somewhat short, not very strong, anterior 

 tibite obliquely truncate outwardly, neither angular, dentate or 

 dilated outwardly at apex, slightly emarginate inwardly towards the 



