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impression, eyes separated by a narrow interval in the anterior 

 part of the vertex, antennae reaching slightly beyond the humeral 

 part, and with the joints 4-9 produced angularly at the tip, almost 

 serrate in the inner side, last joint not narrower than the penulti- 

 mate, sub-truncate at tip ; prothorax very little broader than long, 

 not carinate laterally, slightly sinuate there above the base, and 

 strewn with round, irregularly spaced punctures separated by 

 smooth intervals ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra sub-parallel,, 

 sharply costate, the costse tectiform from base to apex, and with 

 the deep but narrow intervals filled with closely set and regularly 

 disposed punctures. 



The nearest ally of this species is S. csratum, Makl., but S'. ovam- 

 pooise differs from it in having smooth intervals between the punctures. 

 on the prothorax, and in having much sharper costae on the elytra. 



Length 18 mm. ; width 5f mm. 



Hab. Ovainpoland. W. A. Eriksson. 



STRONGYLIUM LAUTUM, n. sp. 



Head, prothorax, and legs dark metallic blue, elytra purplish, 

 under side dark grey ; anterior part of the head finely and closely 

 punctate, posterior more roughly and more deeply punctured, eyes 

 very large, almost contiguous, but having a slight keel-like orbit ; 

 antennas reaching the shoulders, fourth, fifth, sixth joints somewhat 

 angular inwardly ; prothorax plainly narrower in the anterior than 

 in the posterior part, not carinate laterally, slightly sinuate there 

 above the base, and covered with deep, almost contiguous, round, 

 slightly irregular punctures having irregularly raised intervals 

 scutellum elongated, plane, somewhat sharply triangular ; elytra 

 sub-cylindrical, costate, the costaa not tectiform, and separated by 

 deep, somewhat broad punctures growing finer and shallower 

 towards the posterior part. 



This species will be easily identified from among the South 

 African ones by the nearly contiguous eyes. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). Pretoria Museum. 



STRONGYLIUM DISCBEPANS, n. sp. 



Black, almost opaque, but with the elytra slightly shining ; head 

 closely punctulate, except in the basal part, frontal impression very 

 deep, on each side of the head there is a deep longitudinal furrow 

 beginning at the upper anterior angle of the eye and stopping 



