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covered with very closely set sharp tubercles arranged in numerous 

 series. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon). E. G. Alston. 



TEIBE TENTYBINL 

 GEN. EULEANTUS, Haag-Eut. 



EULEANTUS ^EQUALIPENNIS, 



Plate VI., fig. 3. 



Niger, opacus, fere glaber, palpis, antennis pedibusque sub- 

 mfescentibus ; caput confertim longe plicatum, ante oculos utrinque 

 alte carinatum, antice profunde bi-impressum ; prothorax antice 

 modice sub-arcuatus, angulis acutis, lateribus sub-rotundatis, ad 

 basim sinuatis, basi truncata, apice quarto latiore, angulis acutis, 

 supra convexus, plicis longitudinalibus elevatis crebre obsitus ; elytra 

 basi carinata, humeris nullis, prothoracis basi paulum latiora, a basi 

 longe post medium breviter ampliata, apice modice attenuata, post 

 medium prothoracis latitudine maxima dimidio latiora, supra 

 deplanata, postice abrupte declivia, sutura sub-elevata, impres- 

 sioneque juxta suturali, brevi, notata, margine lateral! nulla, punctis 

 confluentibus ad laterum elongatis crebre obsita ; pedes modice 

 elongati, breviter pubescentes. Long. 7 mm. ; lat. 3 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay). C. Wilmer. 



Closely allied to E. (?) humeralis, Haag, but the elytra have not the 

 deep, conspicuous broad sutural depression, and are a little more 

 ampliated laterally past the median part. 



TRIBE CKYPTOCHILINI. 



GEN. CRYPTO CHILE, Latr. 

 CRYPTOCHILE ECHINATA. 



Nigra, indumento griseo, supra terreno, dense vestita ; caput 

 rugosulum, longitudinaliter plicatum ; prothorax longitudine dimidio 

 latior, margine antica in medio recurva, leviter emarginata, lateribus- 

 apice poneque medium spina valida armatis, disco plicis interruptis. 

 crebre obsito ; elytra prothorace basi parum latiora, pone humeros. 

 modice ampliata, ad medium prothorace minus duplo latiora, lateribus 



