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and the whole surface is covered with round, deep, equi-distant punc- 

 tures, separated by a narrow smooth interval ; the hind part of both 

 the head and prothorax have occasionally fuscous, irregular patches ; 

 scutellum sharply triangular ; narrow, and somewhat elongate ; 

 elytra sub- cylindrical, somewhat ampliated laterally towards the 

 posterior part, punctato-striate, but with the big punctures filling 

 the striae not connected longitudinally by an impressed line, the 

 intervals between the striae are very slightly raised, and covered 

 with closely set round punctures very much smaller than those in 

 the striae ; under side and legs coarsely punctate ; antennae reaching 

 the base of the prothorax, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints triangular, 

 but not strongly angular inwardly, the apical ones sub-transverse, 

 not very closely set, apical one not longer than the penultimate, and 

 rounded at the tip. 



Length 16^ mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). Eev. H. Junod. 



Not unlike S. castaneipenne, Makl., but shorter, and with the 

 sculpture of prothorax and elytra quite different. 



STBONGYLIUM NATALENSE, n. sp. 



Bronze, with the elytra bronze-green and darker than the under 

 side, legs purplish with the basal part of the femora rufescent ; 

 antennae reaching the base of the prothorax, joints 5-7 triangular, 

 the three following transverse, closely set, last one hardly longer 

 than the penultimate ; head deeply punctured, the punctures round 

 and denser in the anterior part, and having above the transverse 

 frontal impression a more or less distinct longitudinal one, eyes very 

 broadly separated ; prothorax narrow, sub-linear, but slightly wider 

 at the base than at the apex in the male, rounded laterally in the 

 female, plainly carinate laterally, faintly impressed on each side of 

 the median part of the disk, and more distinctly so above the median 

 part of the base, covered with somewhat irregular and not closely 

 set punctures, and with the intervals smooth ; scutellum with a 

 median impression ; elytra hardly sub-parallel, highly costate with 

 the interstices deeply but irregularly punctured, the costas are con- 

 nected transversely by raised walls forming a very irregular and 

 variable reticulation. 



This species resembles S. bohemani, Makl., and the sculpture of 

 the elytra is alike, but it is much narrower, the antennae are shorter, 

 and the sculpture of the prothorax is different ; in S. bohemani it 

 consists of very deep, irregular punctures separated by highly raised, 



