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foveolate-punctate and having a slight median longitudinal depres- 

 sion ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra elongated, very slightly 

 sinuated laterally, and not appreciably ampliated behind, covered 

 with deep, round punctures separated by an interval, not quite equal 

 in width to their own diameter; abdomen and pectus deeply 

 punctate, the punctures setigerous. 



This species differs from L. pilosus and L. mosambicus by the 

 more parallel elytra, and from L. badius, Mull, in which the elytra 

 are equally parallel, by the long pubescence and the much deeper 

 and not seriate punctures of the elytra, the prothorax is also much 

 more broadly and more coarsely punctate. 



Length 6-7^- mm. ; width 2| 2f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). R. M. Lightfoot ; L. 

 Peringuey. 



GEN. DICHASTOPS, Gerst. 



DlCHASTOPS MASHUNUS, 11. Sp. 



Black with a metallic sheen, elytra ferruginous-brown, faintly 

 metallic, clothed on the upper part with a short, not dense greyish 

 piibescence ; head with a deep, transverse impression extending 

 from one antennal crest to the other, deeply but not roughly, 

 although irregularly, punctate ; eyes almost divided into two ; basal 

 joints of antennae shiny, the four ultimate ones opaque, the three 

 penultimate cylindrical, as broad as long, the last one acuminate at 

 the tip ; prothorax twice as broad as long, straight laterally, but 

 narrower in the posterior than in the anterior part owing to the 

 oiiter sides being rounded off towards the base, the central part of 

 the disk is covered with foveate, sub-contiguous punctures separated 

 by somewhat irregular, raised intervals, the sides are plainly 

 scrobiculate, on each side of the median part there is a somewhat 

 ill-defined impression, each puncture, like those on the head, is 

 setigerous ; scutellum only moderately hairy, punctulate ; elytra 

 elongated, slightly sinuate laterally before the median part, slightly 

 ampliated beyond it, only moderately convex in the posterior, not 

 costulate, covered in the dorsal part with moderately deep punctures 

 separated by a raised, smooth interval narrower than their own 

 diameter, and disposed in transverse, short, not much raised folds 

 on the sides, each puncture is setigerous ; under side and legs some- 

 what densely pubescent. 



Length 10-11^ mm. ; width 4-|-5J mm. 



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



