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the elytra. It seems to have a wide range, and is a close ally of 

 H. vicinus, Pering. 



Length 13-174- mm. ; width 6-7f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Tulbagh), L. Peringuey, E. 

 Lightfoot. Natal (Durban), C. N. Barker ; (Frere) G. A. K. Marshall. 

 Transvaal (Lydenburg), E. J. Dunn. 



HOPLONYX PUDENS, n. Sp. 



Black, shining, except the prothorax which is opaque ; antennal 

 crests longitudinal, eyes reaching nearly the arcuate frontal impres- 

 sion, divided there by a space about equal to one-fourth of their 

 width, anterior part of the head punctate, posterior impunctate ; 

 prothorax gradually attenuated laterally from the base to the apex 

 where it is only slightly more than half as wide, but the attenuation 

 is plainer near the apex, carinate, one-third broader at the base than 

 long, with a faint basal groove, and almost impunctate ; scutellum 

 short, triangular, only slightly punctate ; elytra not wider at the 

 base than the base of the prothorax, but with the shoulders sloping 

 immediately behind the base, somewhat sharply acuminate laterally 

 towards the apex, and having such shallow strife that the punctures 

 they contain are often disconnected, and stand by themselves in 

 some male examples, the intervals are plane and impunctate. 



Length 11-14 mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban), E. N. Barker ; (Eshowe) A. Windham. 



HOPLONYX SPECTANDUS, n. sp. 



Very closely allied to H. pudens ; the shape of the head and eyes 

 are the same, bat the punctures on the vertex are deeper; the 

 prothorax is shining, plainly punctate, in the shape of a truncate 

 cone, half as broad again at the base as at the apex, and one-third 

 wider at the base than long, the sides are almost straight ; the 

 bi-sinuate base has a very faint median groove, and in the central 

 part of the disk there is a fine, slightly impressed, longitudinal line 

 disappearing in the posterior part ; elytra as in H. pudens, but more 

 deeply striate, and with all the punctures united. 



Closely allied to H. (Erycastus) navicularis, Fairm., but the 

 prothorax is much more narrowly attenuated from the base to the 

 anterior angle, and in the type of H. navicularis, kindly lent me by 

 Mons. Fairmaire, there are no traces of the median impressed line 

 on the anterior part. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). Dr. Spencer. 



