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and tibitc, with the exception of the apices which are infuscate, 

 reddish with a fleshy tinge, elytra testaceous and sprinkled all over 

 with irregular black spots ; the whole body is covered with an 

 appressed, greyish-white pubescence ; head foveate-punctate, the 

 palpi, labruni, and epistoma are black, and there is a frontal median 

 black stripe reaching to about half the length of the frontal part 

 showing a longitudinal raised area showing in relief ; prothorax 

 strongly strangulate in the anterior part, narrowly yet deeply grooved 

 longitudinally in the median part, irregularly foveolate-punctate and 

 having a smooth, median areolet on each side of the longitudinal 

 groove, and another one somewhat less denned near the base ; elytra 

 elongated, sinuate laterally and slightly ampliated in the posterior 

 part, singly rounded at apex, and having in the dorsal part three 

 plain costules, and another less well-defined, running parallel with 

 the somewhat deplanate outer margin for the greater part of its 

 length, the suture is as much raised as the outer margin ; they are 

 shagreened, but the appressed pubescence hides entirely the back- 

 ground, except the black spots, which are glabrous ; antennae black, 

 short, barely reaching the humeral part ; both claws of all the tarsi 

 equally cleft. 



Length 14 mm. ; w r idth 5^ mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Waterberg District), Pretoria Museum. 



FAMILY LAGRIID^E. 



GEN. LAG El A, Fabric. 



I. Species with the elytra moderately ampliated laterally in the posterior part, and 

 not greatly convex there in the female. 



LAGRIA PROCEEA, n. sp. 



Female : Head, prothorax, and legs aeneous, elytra and under side 

 light chestnut-brown with a metallic tinge, antennae black, the five 

 basal joints metallic ; head deeply punctured, the punctures sepa- 

 rated by moderately smooth, irregular, raised intervals, there is 

 a median impression in the anterior frontal part, and a sub- 

 parallel, ill-defined one along the eyes ; antennae somewhat short, 

 the four penultimate joints are gradually increasing in width, and 

 are moderately closely set, the ultimate one is turbinate and half again 

 as long as the penultimate ; prothorax plainly ampliated and rounded 

 laterally, covered with round punctures separated by smooth inter- 

 vals on the discoidal part, and by irregular, raised ones on the sides, 



