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the size and darker, and the whole of the four sub-humeral spines, 

 and also the ramification from which they radiate are entirely black ; 

 under side and legs testaceous with the median part of the abdomen 

 infuscated. Length 4J- mm. ; width 3 mm. 

 Hab. Transvaal (Leydenburg), T. Ayres. 



PLATYPKIA CONNEXA, n. sp. 



Testaceous brown, the two basal joints of the antennae slightly 

 infuscate, lateral spines of the prothorax disposed as in the two pre- 

 vious species, but not infuscate ; in the basal transverse depression 

 are two round black discoidal spots ; elytra elongato-quadrate, 

 deeply and broadly punctato-striate, and without any black patches; 

 the lateral spines are disposed as in the two preceding species, but 

 the spines are hardly infuscate except the posterior ones, which are 

 darker brown at the tip, and those on the back are disposed from 

 the median part to the apex in a duplicate series of three instead of 

 only one long discoidal one past the middle with a few scattered 

 spiculae below it ; under side testaceous. Length 4^ mm. ; width 

 3 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), T. Ayres. 



GEN. PODISPA, Chap., 

 Lacordaire's Genera, vol. xi. p. 334. 



PODISPA EXTREMA, n. sp. 



Blue-black, shining, briefly pubescent ; antennae slightly longer 

 than the head and prothorax with the joints closely set and spinu- 

 lose, the basal one with five moderately long but conspicuous 

 outer spines, the second one with two shorter ones at the base ; pro- 

 thorax subelongate, somewhat narrowed in the anterior part, deeply 

 grooved longitudinally in the centre with the median part of the disk 

 raised on each side ; anterior margin bearing on each side of the 

 suture four long spines borne on one stalk, the two anterior ones of 

 which are directed forward, and the other two are shorter and nearly 

 vertical, outer margin with a bifid process (the anterior one of \vhich 

 bears t\vo, and the posterior one three spines), and a small vertical 

 spine set at a short distance from the bifid process, and quite dis- 

 connected with it ; elytra elongate, parallel, punctato-striate, and 

 having on each side four dorsal rows of sharp, not very long spines, 

 closely set, and a marginal one of equally long but more closely set 

 spines ; legs spinulose outwardly. Length 5 mm. ; width 2^- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska), Dr. F. Purcell ; Natal (Malvern), 

 C. N. Barker. 



