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sharp, central part nearly smooth, lateral one covered with irregularly 

 arranged, deep punctures ; elytra not broader than the prothorax,. 

 nearly straight, but slightly ampliate past the median part ; the 

 surface is covered with a series of deep round punctures, separated 

 by a narrow, smooth interval ; legs punctulate. . Length 10 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Pine Town), J. P. Cregoe, (Malvern) C. N. Barker, 

 G. A. K. Marshall. 



GEN. BALYANA, n. g. 



Allied to Ccdcenomenodera, Blanch., and with a similar facies, 

 but differentiated by the number of antennal joints, the five ultimate 

 ones of which are completely fused into one not much longer than 

 the two preceding, and the antennae are thus only seven-jointed. 



BALYANA ALGOENSIS, n. sp. 



Yellow, shining, with the head, antennae, scutellum, under side, 

 tarsi, and legs black, but the femora and tibiaa of the anterior pair 

 are flavous ; antennae short, rigid, consisting of seven joints, the 

 apical one not much longer than the two preceding put together 

 and subfusiform ; anterior part of prothorax produced in front in a 

 long, obtuse triangle, outer sides slightly emarginate near the base, 

 discoidal part with three raised lines connected by two transverse 

 ones forming six broad impressions ; elytra subparallel, elongate, 

 having on each side three slightly wavy, raised lines, connected 

 transversely by raised folds forming an irregular reticulation with 

 broad and deep punctures between ; tibiee inflated inwardly, and 

 with a short, supra-apical tooth externally. Length 9 mm. ; width 

 3^ mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla), Eev. H. Junod. 



GEN. ONCOCEPHALA, Chevrol., 

 D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., ix., 1847. 



ONCOCEPHALA PROMONTOBII, n. sp. 



Brown, variegated with a pale flavescence, glabrous, moderately 

 shining, antennae and under side black ; head with a broad, much 

 raised tubercle grooved in the centre and mamillate ; prothorax sub- 

 rectangular, with the apical part a little narrower than the rest, 

 outer margins with two short teeth, the one apical, the other post- 

 apical, surface irregularly punctured, disk with three grooves, the 



