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sides broadly depressed and the outer margin reflexed, narrowly and 

 somewhat finely scrobiculate-punctate ; scutellum deeply punctate ; 

 elytra slightly sinuate laterally behind the humeral angle, somewhat 

 ampliate, short, convex at about the median part, strongly dehiscent 

 thence, highly costate with the third, fifth, and seventh costae more 

 raised than the others, the first and second are broader and sub- 

 tectiform, the others very sharp, and the intervals are filled with 

 deep, transverse foveas impinging on the whole side of the costte 

 but not on the sharp, carinate part ; under side striolate. 



Differs from the other South African species by its shorter appear- 

 ance due to the greater convexity of the elytra. It is probably 

 closely allied to A. clathratus, Gerst., which I know from the 

 description only. The intervals between the sharply carinate elytral 

 costae are wide, and filled with transverse foveae even broader than 

 in Oxythorax clathratus, Fahr. Oxythorax being identical with 

 Anchophthalmus, I propose to change the specific name clathratus 

 into fahrcsi. 



Length 16-17 mm. ; width 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Algoa Bay). J. de Coster. 



ANCHOPHTHALMUS PLICIPENNIS, u. sp. 



Female : Black, opaque, covered on the upper side with most 

 minute greyish hairs ; head deeply and closely punctate. ; prothorax 

 nearly equally rounded laterally, the sides are not very broadly 

 ampliate, but the margin is well raised, the discoidal part is only 

 slightly convex and bears two faint, median impressions, it is 

 covered with somewhat small, moderately deep punctures separated 

 by a very narrow, irregular, only slightly raised wall ; scutellum 

 deeply punctate ; elytra, slightly ampliate past the median part 

 where they are one-fifth wider than across the base, accuminate in 

 the posterior part, almost plane from the base to the posterior 

 declivity, slightly convex there, and slanting thence to the apex, 

 finely striate, but the striae are shallow, the three first intervals are 

 plane, the fifth and sixth are raised, the whole surface is deeply 

 punctate and covered with irregular, wrinkle-like transverse foveate 

 punctures, shallow in the dorsal part, deeper and more seriate on 

 the sides, these folds are produced by the raised walls of these 

 foveae, and the two raised supra-lateral intervals are very plainly 

 wavy and wider than the intervening one ; under side glabrous ; 

 legs minutely hairy. 



Length 13^-17 mm. ; width 64-8* mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



