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moderately long dark spines, set at some distance from one another 

 with two shorter spines on the posterior part, between the first and 

 second rows ; the suture is also spinulose, and the spines of the 

 marginal row are more closely set than the dorsal but of equal 

 size ; legs flavescent. Length 4 mni. ; width 2 mm. 

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



HISPA PUBICOLLIS, Chap., 

 Ann. d. Belg., 1877, p. 55. 



HISPA INANIS, n. sp. 



Flavous, with the dorsal spines of the elytra and the space edging 

 the diagonal smooth spaces of the prothorax infuscate ; antennee 

 long but not slender, third joint longer than the fourth, and the five 

 ultimate ones thicker than the intermediate ones ; thorax very 

 nearly glabrous, faintly grooved longitudinally in the middle, and 

 having on each side a long, arcuate, smooth space ; elytra nearly 

 twice as broad as the prothorax, foveolate, glabrous, and having on 

 each side two series of distant, moderately long spines, with two 

 isolated ones in the second interval and two set close to one another 

 between the second row and the outer margin in the posterior part, 

 spines of the outer margin long and closely set. Length 4^ rnm. ; 

 width 21- mm. 



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



HISPA PERFIDA, n. sp. 



Bronze, with a reddish brown tinge ; antennae short, thick, the 

 four basal joints black or dark fuscous, all the joints with the 

 exception of the third one, which is a little longer, nearly one-third 

 longer than wide, and closely set ; prothorax with a few squamiform 

 hairs, narrowly grooved longitudinally in the centre, and having on 

 each side of the groove a round, conspicuous, raised, denuded 

 space ; elytra glabrous, foveolate, twice as broad as the prothorax, 

 and having three rows on each side of short, black spines, very 

 thick at base and closely set, spines of marginal row more slender 

 than the dorsal ones, but of equal length ; legs reddish brown. 

 Length 4451- mm. ; width 2-1 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern), G. A. K. Marshall, C. N. Barker. 



HlSPA AMBIGUA, 11. Sp. 



Buff colour, but occasionally iufuscate ; antennee short, joints 

 thick, closely set, third one nearly twice as long as the fourth, the 

 five ultimate joints one-fourth thicker than the intermediate ones, 



