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in medio deplanatus, antice sub-deflexus, lateral! ter modice convexus, 

 in medio disci breviter canaliculatus, granulis elongatis crebre 

 obsitus ; scutellura acutum leve ; elytra basi prothorace nonnihil 

 latiora, humeris sub-oblique rotundatis, lateribus baud sensim 

 ampliatis, postice conjunctim attenuata, in dorso sub-depressa, acute 

 marginata, anguste striata, striis granulosis, interstitiis granulis 

 validioribus seriatis instructa; epipleura levia; corpus subtus punctu- 

 latum, vage pilosum ; pedes rugosi, brevissime pubescentes. Long. 

 11-14 mm. ; lat. 6-74- mm. 



Differs from the preceding species in the absence of pubescence ; 

 the prothorax is not quite so ampliated laterally, and is more 

 attenuate in front. 



Hab. Cape Colony (O'Kiep, Namaqualand). L. Peringuey. 



ACANTHOMERA HOTTENTOTA. 



Ni.ura, sub-nitida, supra glabra sed capite antice flavo tomentoso ; 

 antennae elongatte, brevissime pubescentes ; caput crebre punctu- 

 latum ; prothorax 3 latitudine nonnihil longior, $ longitudine 

 latitudine aequalis, lateribus modice rotundatis, antice leviter attenu- 

 atus, marginatus, modice convexus, antice parum drtiVxus, medio 

 obsolete breviter canaliculatus, granulis nitidis dispersis obsitus ; 

 elytra $ , elongato-ovata, apice acuta, ? basi ampliata, medio pro- 

 thorace duplo latiora, apice modice acuminata nonnunquam sutura 

 a basi pone medium distincte depressa, profunde punctato-striata, 

 seriebus decem e tuberculis validis acutis, retrospinosis, utrimque 

 praedita; epipleura angusta, baud punctulata; corpus subtus punctu- 

 latum, breviter laxeque pilosulum ; pedes rugosi brevissime pubes- 

 centes. Long. 11-19 mm. ; lat. 6-8 rnm. 



This species is at once distinguishable by the few scattered 

 granules on the prothorax, and also the shape of the retrospinose 

 tubercles on the elytra. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, O'Kiep, Klipfontein). 

 L. Peringuey. 



ACANTHOMERA CONSOCIA. 



Nigra, fere opaca, glabra ; antennas longaa, vix pubescentes ; caput 

 vertice granulatum, apicu punctulatum ; prothorax longitudine tertio 

 latior, a medio apice leviter attenuatus, postice sub-rotundatus, totus 

 marginatus, supra antice nonnihil convexus, postice fore deplanatus, 

 medio obsolete longitudinaliter breviterquc canaliculatus, granulis 

 sub-nitidis rninimis crebre obsitus, interstitiis strigillatis, basi 



