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the remainder of the elytra, except the impressions ; these tubercles 

 are transversely disposed at the top of the declivity, and are also 

 disposed in a row along the outer margin. 



Length 12-15| mm. ; width 5-6| mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). E. M. Lightfoot. 



GEN. XANTHOTHOPEIA, Makl. 

 XANTHOTHOPEIA DELAGO.E, n. sp. 



Head, prothorax, legs, and under side bronze ; elytra chestnut- 

 red with a bronze sheen ; allied to X. rufipennis, Makl., but smaller ; 

 the shape and sculpture of the head and prothorax are the same, but 

 the elytra are much more shining, more deeply and broadly reticu- 

 late, and the space between each reticulation is filled with deeper 

 and rougher, irregular punctures. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marques). 



GEN. PEAOGENA, Cast. 

 PRAOGENA CYANEIPENNIS, n. sp. 



Head and prothorax black, sub-opaque, the latter with a very faint 

 cyaneous tinge, palpi and the six basal joints of antennae piceous- 

 red ; head closely but irregularly and somewhat roughly punctate ; 

 prothorax roundly attenuate laterally in the anterior part, slightly 

 ampliated and rounded towards the median, sinuate towards the 

 base, plainly convex and dehiscent in the anterior part, only one- 

 sixth wider than long, and covered with deep, round punctures 

 which are more cicatricose laterally than on the median part, and 

 are separated by smooth intervals nearly equal in width to their own 

 diameter ; scutellum almost impimctate ; elytra of the normal shape, 

 i.e., sub-parallel for two-thirds of the length, but sinuate towards the 

 median part, and gradually acuminate towards the apex, with the 

 humeral callus strongly developed, deeply striate with the striae 

 closely and deeply punctate, the first five intervals are moderately 

 tectate-convex, the others are almost plane, and they are all 

 impunctate; under side and legs blue-black, shining. 



This species is distinguished from the South African ones by the 

 broader, more convex, and also more robust prothorax. 



Length 16-18 mm. ; width 5|-6^ mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. A. W. Eriksson. 



