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punctures separated by narrow, smooth, raised walls, disposed 

 transversely in irregular, very wavy folds. 



This species is also allied to <S'. villosa, but the elytra of the male 

 are much less ampliated behind, the triangular frontal patch is 

 similar, but the prothorax is longer in proportion to its width, the 

 antennae are longer, and the punctuation, especially that of the 

 elytra, is finer. 



Length 8-|- 11 mm. ; width 3|-5 mm. 



In some examples the bronze-green of the elytra and occasionally 

 of the prothorax turns into a dull coppery hue. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



LAGRIA LYDENBURGIANA, n. sp. 



Dark cyaneous-blue, with the elytra bronze-green, clothed with a 

 somewhat dense greyish, erect pubescence ; antennas long in the 

 male, the five penultimate joints are closely set, strongly transverse, 

 being nearly twice as broad as long, and the ultimate joint is elon- 

 gated and as long as the five preceding joints taken together, in the 

 female these joints are not so strongly transverse nor so closely set, 

 and the apical one is not quite turbinate, and is as long as the two 

 preceding taken together ; head scrobiculate ; prothorax longer than 

 broad, sub-cylindrical, scrobiculate-punctate, and without any traces 

 of median longitudinal line ; scutellum short, deeply punctate ; 

 elytra slightly ampliated laterally in the posterior part in both sexes, 

 with the humeral angles plainly sloping in the female, not convex in 

 the posterior part, finely and closely punctate, with the network of 

 transverse folds quite plain, but not very much raised. 



Allied to L. propinqua, Fahr., and L. cvncipcnnis, Fahr., from 

 which the male is easily distinguished by the shape of the last 

 antennal joint, and the female by the less ampliated elytra. 



Length 7^ 8^ mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). T. Ayres. 



II. Species moderately or strongly ampliated in the posterior part in the male, 

 greatly ampliated and very convex there in the female. 



LAGRIA PROMONTORII, 11. sp. 



Head, prothorax, abdomen, and basal part of the femora light 

 chestnut-brown, antennae black, except the three basal joints which 

 are metallic and reddish -brown, legs infuscate, elytra light testaceous 

 with a faint metallic sheen, covered all over the upper side with a 

 very long, dense, light flavescent pubescence, partly appressed and 



