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sericeous and flavescent ; thorax briefly pubescent, and provided 

 with a fine longitudinal median line and a round raised space on 

 each side, partly hidden by the pubescence ; elytra light brown 

 but sometimes infuscate, deeply seriate-punctate, very briefly and 

 sparsely pubescent, and having on each side four dorsal rows of 

 very short spines, the spines of the marginal row are black, closely 

 set, moderately long, but longer than those in the dorsal series where 

 there are minute ones alternating with the longer ones ; legs light 

 brown. Length 3-3^ mm. ; width li li mm. 



Chiefly distinguished from H. ambigua by the smaller size and 

 little more slender facies, the less developed raised discoidal spaces ; 

 the series of spines on the dorsal part of the elytra are denser, and 

 four in number instead of three. 



Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp), E. G. Alston. 



HlSPA LITIGIOSA, n. sp. 



Flavous, glabrous, with the six basal joints of antennae, two 

 discoidal patches on the prothorax, two on the scutellum, and the 

 dorsal spines on the elytra black ; antennae long, moderately slender, 

 with the five apical joints not much thicker than the intermediate 

 ones, third and fourth joints of nearly equal size ; prothorax closely 

 punctured and with a sparse, squamiform pubescence, discoidal part 

 without any raised space, but having instead two moderately broad, 

 longitudinal black patches ; elytra foveolate and having two dorsal 

 rows of long, sharp spines distant from one another, and two or 

 three spines in the intervals in the posterior part ; spines of 

 marginal row more slender than the dorsal and also more closely set, 

 scutellum with two fuscous patches, one on each side of the base ; 

 legs straw colour. Length 4^ 5jmm. ; width 2| 2^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern), G. A. K. Marshall; Zululand (Eshowe), 

 A. Windham. 



Two species belonging to this first division have been described 

 by Chapuis, but I have not as yet met with them. 



HlSPA MAMILLATA, Chap., 



Ann. d. Belg., 1877, p. 56. 



HISPA TENUICORNIS, Chap. 

 Ann. a. Belg., 1877, p. 56. 



HISPA NATALICA, n. sp. 



Black, very shining, glabrous ; antennae long, slender, the five 

 ultimate joints thickened, elongate, clothed with a flavescent, short 



