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Antennae with the sis basal joints very short and nodose, the 

 other five thick and longer than the six basal ones ; elytra 

 rufescent fallaciosa. 



b 2 . Lateral process consisting of five vertical spines, the posterior 

 one of which is not bifid. 



Body covered with a dense, silky, yellow pubescence lanigera. 



b 1 . Lateral process consisting of nine horizontal spines, the 

 posterior one of which is bifid ramulosa. 



HlSPA SOBRINA, 11. sp. 



Black, glabrous, very shiny ; antennas long, not slender, the seven 

 ultimate joints not moniliform, third one as long as the three 

 following, the five ultimate ones sericeous ; thorax very rugosely 

 alveolate, and without any denuded space, but with a slight depres- 

 sion in the middle of the anterior part ; elytra elongate, twice as 

 broad as the prothorax, deeply seriato-foveate, with the foveae shining, 

 and having 011 each side two series of stout, not closely set, short 

 spines, with two stout spines between the first and second dorsal 

 rows, one at about the middle the other at the apex, marginal row 

 consisting of moderately closely set spines a little more slender than 

 the dorsal ones. Length 5^- mm. ; width 2J mm. 



Allied to H. spinulosa, from the West Coast of Africa, but at once 

 distinguished by the more massive antennae and the shape of the 

 spines in the anterior margin of the prothorax, which are strongly 

 bifid in H. spinulosa, whereas in H. sobrina the anterior part of the 

 process is quite minute. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern), G. A. K. Marshall. 



HISPA CAPICOLA, n. sp. 



Linear ; black, opaque, nearly glabrous ; antennae moderately 

 slender, basal joint very thick, the five following narrow, third one a 

 little longer than the fourth, the five ultimate ones moderately 

 thickened and pubescent ; discoidal raised parts of the thorax 

 smooth and very distinct ; elytra deeply foveate, and with three 

 dorsal series of short spines on each side, and a marginal one, 

 the spines of which are not longer than the dorsal ones ; the first 

 interval along the suture has a slightly raised, somewhat spinose 

 line, the spines of which are more developed in the posterior part. 

 Length 4-1 5|- mm. ; width 2-2J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester). 



