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sides which are very shining are bare and only slightly punctulate ; 

 under side shining, glabrous ; legs short, slender, simple, and like 

 the tarsi clothed with a flavescent pubescence ; antennae very briefly 

 pubescent. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



This species is distinguished from all the others by the long, erect 

 hairs on the elytra. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum. 



MlCEANTEREUS VICARIUS, 11. Sp., 



Plate XIII., fig. 3. 



Male : Black, sub-opaque on the elytra ; head and prothorax finely 

 punctate, the aciculate punctures slightly finer on the head than on 

 the prothorax, where they are separated by a smooth interval equal 

 in width to their own diameter ; prothorax of the normal shape, that 

 is to say, about one-fifth broader than long, very slightly attenuate 

 laterally in front and behind, with the two angles sharp but not pro- 

 jecting, very little convex behind, and sloping slightly in the anterior 

 part ; scutellum very short, narrow, but fairly wide ; elytra not 

 convex in the dorsal part, fitting against the base of the prothorax, 

 but with the shoulders rounded, oblong-ovate but sub-acuminate 

 towards the posterior part, very slightly narrower across the decli- 

 vous part than across the median, where they are double the width 

 of the base, sharply tri-costate on each side, with the suture slightly 

 raised, the interval between the two juxta-sutural costas are strongly 

 coriaceous, and the two other intervals filled with large granules 

 w T hich are larger, more tubercle-like, and also more numerous 

 throughout the whole of its length than on the second, the anterior 

 part of which is more sub-scrobiculate than tuberculate ; sides 

 irregularly punctate and coriaceous ; tooth of the anterior femora 

 distinct but not sharp, all the tibiae sinuate inwardly in the usual 

 manner. 



Female : Head and prothorax finely aciculate as in the male ; 

 prothorax shorter, one-third broader than long ; scutellum very 

 rudimentary ; elytra strongly convex and very declivous behind, 

 two-fifths wider across the median part than across the base, and 

 only one-sixth narrower at the top of the declivous part, sharply 

 tri-costate on each side, and with the three intervals filled with 

 somewhat remote tubercles neither so closely set nor so distinct as 

 in the male, but better defined in the anterior part of the first 

 interval. 



