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strongly defined ; prpthorax a little attenuate laterally from the 

 apical angle to about the median part, and nearly straight from 

 there to the basal, with the posterior angle a little rounded; 

 rnarginate all round, the anterior part is distinctly arcuate, the base 

 nearly straight, it is moderately convex and covered with fine, yet 

 deep and very closely set punctures ; scutellum very short but 

 broadly triangular ; elytra elongate-ovate but acuminate in the 

 posterior part, and slightly more arnpliate in the female than in the 

 male, moderately convex but very sloping in the posterior part ; they 

 are covered with numerous closely set seriate punctures, and have 

 on each side six rows of sharp, depressed tubercles directed back- 

 wards, these rows of tubercles begin at a short distance from the 

 base, and occasionally there are a few smaller ones along the suture ; 

 under side and legs very deeply and closely punctured ; anterior 

 femora with a very large inner swelling ending in a very distinct 

 sharp spine in both sexes, but with the outer part of the swelling 

 distinctly angular in the male. 



Length 9-9^ mm. ; width 4i-5i mm. 



This species is very different in general appearance from the 

 typical Acanthomera dentines, Fab., A. y rat ilia, Herbst., &c., but it is 

 closely allied in general facies to A. helopioidcs, Guer., from which it 

 is easily distinguished by the sculpture of the elytra. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Bredasdorp). H. Fry. 



GEN. VUTSIMUS, Pering. 



VUTSIMUS PKOPINQUUS, 11. Sp. 



Male : Bronze-black, with the elytra lighter, moderately shining ; 

 head and prothorax deeply punctate, the punctures separated by a 

 smooth interval narrower than their diameter ; prothorax ampliated 

 and rounded laterally, but more attenuate in the anterior than in the 

 posterior part, not much convex, but dehiscent in front, and having 

 a very narrow longitudinal median line extending from the apex to 

 near the centre of the disk ; scutellum broadly triangular, punctate ; 

 elytra very strongly ampliated, globose, ^ovate, sharply declivous in 

 the posterior part, acuminate at apex, convex from the median part 

 to the top of the abrupt declivity, and having three fairly distinct 

 non-striate rows of punctures reaching the declivity, with the in- 

 tervals separating these rows closely and irregularly punctate, the 

 remainder of the dorsal part is very roughly punctured, the punc- 

 tures changing into a coarse, irregular, verrucose granulation on the 

 sides and in the posterior declivous part ; epipleural fold deeply 



