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the median part, straight thence to the basal angle, the discoidal 

 part is raised and bears on each side a double row of high spines 

 somewhat blunt at tip, the anterior margin, and also the base have 

 each two spines in the middle ; elytra not wider at the base than the 

 base of the prothorax, expanding obliquely at the shoulders, ovate 

 thence, the discoidal part is very much raised and the sides and 

 posterior part abruptly sloping, the raised part has on each side two 

 sharp, serrulate costae, and the suture is also raised, the first costa 

 does not reach beyond the median part, the second, which is edging 

 laterally the raised discoidal part, reaches the top of the declivity, is 

 strongly developed in the anterior part, and ends sharply in the 

 posterior, these two costee are united with the suture by four trans- 

 verse raised lines, forming thus six deep, quadrate impressions on 

 each side, the sloping part between the outer dorsal costa and the 

 sharp carinate outer margin is divided into two by a very faint 

 costule, and has very faint traces of quadrate impressions similar to 

 the plainly visible ones of the discoidal part ; under side and legs 

 densely and very briefly pubescent. 



This species is very distinct from P. cristata, Deg. 



Length 5-|-5f mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). L. Peringuey. 



PHLIGKA MINUTA, n. sp. 



Black, covered with dense, greyish, very short, bristle-like hairs ; 

 head closely punctate, eyes bulging, and with a strongly cristate 

 ridge, antennal keel strong ; prothorax with the discoidal part some- 

 what raised, the outer margin is serrulate, not angular in the middle, 

 the anterior one is very highly carinate in the anterior part, in the 

 middle of the disk is a short, plain bifid tubercle, and there is 

 a broad, transverse impression between this tubercle and the base 

 which looks therefore as if it were raised, and a similar but more 

 diagonal impression reaching the outer sides between this median 

 tubercle and the anterior margin ; elytra broader than the base of 

 the prothorax but with the shoulders slanting and the humeral 

 angle sharply tuberculate, elongate-ovate, acuminate behind, convex 

 in the anterior part, and gradually dehiscent thence towards the 

 apex, the suture is moderately raised and on each side are two rows 

 of rounded, pubescent tubercles, the first one consists of three, the 

 second of five or six the last of which is situated at a short distance 

 from the apex, and the outer margin has a row of seven or eight, the 

 humeral tubercle included. 



Length 4f mm. ; width 2|- mm. 



