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aciculate ; the abdomen and legs are clothed with minute appressed 

 greyish hairs, and the legs are slightly rufescent. 



The eyes in this very distinct species are rounder and more bulging 

 than in the other species known to me. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 4J mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Waterberg District). Pretoria Museum. 



GEN. AMIANTUS, Fahr. 

 AMIANTUS PUSILLUS, n. sp. 



Dark-brown, covered with an earthy substance, head very roughly 

 punctate ; prothorax highly convex in the discoidal part, almost 

 gibbose, somewhat compressed laterally and along the base, with 

 the sides ampliated and rounded in the middle, scrobiculate, with a 

 very short hair in each scrobicule, without a median raised line, but 

 having on each side a deep longitudinal impression edged laterally 

 by a short, carinate wall ; elytra ampliate, and having on each side 

 four sharply carinate, yet slightly flexuose costse, the inner one, set 

 close to the suture, barely reaches the top of the strong posterior 

 declivity, while the other three reach a little further down, the outer 

 margin which is as sharply carinate as the dorsal costas, does not 

 reach beyond them, and is almost dentate at apex, the faintly punc- 

 tate intervals have undulating transverse lines more distinct along 

 the sides of the costse than in the centre, and forming there 

 alveolets; abdomen finely, but somewhat deeply punctate, punctures 

 not closely set and bearing each a minute grey hair ; sternum 

 foveate-punctate ; legs very briefly and densely pubescent. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 



The shape of the prothorax closely resembles that of A. haroldi, 

 but it has no traces of the conspicuous median raised line of the 

 former, and the discoidal supra-lateral tubercles are more in the 

 shape of a ridge ; the elytral costae are not strongly flexuose as in 

 A. haroldi. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). A. J. T. Janse; Eev. H. Junod. 



GEN. PHLIGEA, Casteln. 

 PHLIGRA HAMATICOLLIS, n. sp. 



Black, densely, but very briefly pubescent and clothed with an 

 earthy covering often hiding the teguments ; head very deeply 

 impressed transversely between the highly raised antennal keels ; 

 prothorax as long as broad, sharply angular laterally slightly before 



