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about the median part, the constriction being continued on the dis- 

 coidal part as two transverse impressions nearly coalescing in the 

 centre, and above these impressions there is another median trans- 

 verse one which is much shallower, and does not reach the sides. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). T. Ayres. 



LAGRIA AXNECTENS, n. sp. 



Female : Black, but with the elytra and legs occasionally brownish, 

 clothed on the upper side with a short, appressed, greyish-white, 

 somewhat silky pubescence ; antennae long, somewhat slender, the 

 two penultimate joints transverse, the others obconic ; elytra very 

 broadly ampliated behind and very convex there ; head very closely 

 punctulate and without any raised lines or impressions in the 

 anterior part ; prothorax plainly rounded laterally, not constricted 

 along the base, very closely punctulate, and without any traces of a 

 median longitudinal line or ridge, but having in the median discoidal 

 part tw r o very faint round impressions ; elytra closely and moderately 

 deeply punctured, the transverse folds moderately raised ; under 

 side not densely pubescent. 



Length 8i-9 mm. ; width 4}-5 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



This species will be easily distinguished from L. pluml>ea by the 

 rounded prothorax. 



