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and legs aciculate, the sides of sternum and episterna are deeply and 

 closely punctate. 



Length 10J-13 mni. ; width 4-4 mm 



Hob. Cape Colony (Kowie), Dr. Becker ; (King William's Town), 

 E. M. Lightfoot. 



ASEMOGENA HUMILIS, 11. Sp. 



Chestnut-brown, elytra chestnut-red ; very closely allied to the 

 preceding species ; the punctuation on the head and prothorax is 

 identical, but the prothorax is more equally rounded laterally in the 

 middle, and therefore less deeply sinuate above the basal angle, 

 which is also sharp, but less than in A. simplex; the striae of the 

 elytra are less deeply punctate in the anterior part, and the intervals 

 less sharply tectiforrn and only slightly aciculate. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 3-f-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Montagu), W. Prosser. 



FAMILY 



GEN. MELOE, Lin. 

 MELOE EHODESIANUS, n. sp. 



Male : Dark blue, shining ; head very sparsely punctate and 

 having a longitudinal impression with a fine line in the centre 

 reaching from the median frontal part to the arcuate impression of 

 the epistome, the latter and also the labrum are somewhat more 

 closely punctured than the frontal part ; antennae long, with the fifth 

 to seventh joints dilated and sixth and seventh somewhat scooped 

 inwardly ; prothorax twice as long as broad, wider at a short dis- 

 tance from the apex than across the base, with the sides nearly 

 straight but slightly constricted behind the ampliated part, the 

 anterior part obliquely narrowed, base slightly arcuate and with two 

 moderately deep impressions above the median part, the disk is 

 sparingly punctate, the punctures are slightly more dense in the 

 anterior part, and there are very few of them in the centre of the 

 posterior part above the two basal impressions ; elytra not broader 

 than the prothorax at the base, gradually ampliated thence towards 

 the median part, nearly straight from there to the apex, strongly 

 divaricating behind, and covered with wavy, plainly raised, longi- 

 tudinal folds which are continuous from the base to near the apex, 

 except on the sides where they are more irregular ; abdomen deeply 



