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dense vestita ; caput in meclio vix impression, lobis ante-ocularibus 

 modice proniinulis ; prothorax antice late circulatim emarginatus, 

 postice profunde bisinuatus, angulis acutis sat proniinulis, ab angulo 

 antico pone medium lateratum rotundato ampliatus, dein basi baud 

 sensim obliquatus, disco postice quadratim elevato, intra basim 

 apiceque utrinque impressus, lateribus latis, deplanatis, margine 

 crassa, infra excavata ; elytra antice prothorace vix angustiora, 

 post medium baud ampliata, plana, postice dehiscentia, margine 

 laterali tuberculata, verrucis setiferis, elongatis, fere cohoerentibus, 

 ad basim noununquam costam formantibus, ante apicern evanescenti- 

 bus in singulo bi-seriatis, interstitio laterali postice sparse verrucoso ; 

 corpus subtus vix setosum ; pedes brevissirne sed dense setulosi. 

 Long. 9^-10| rnm. ; lat. 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay). Dr. W. P. Purcell. 



AsiDA UNIGEXA, 



Tab. VI., fig. 8. 



Nigra, pube squamosa ochracea vel nigrescente, dense obtecta ; 

 caput rugose punctatum, breviter setulosum, vertice longitudinaliter 

 tri-impressum, lobis ante-ocularibus, distinctis ; prothorax longitu- 

 dine vix latior, apice late circulatim emarginatus, basi baud sinuatus, 

 angulis, posticis rectis, ab angulo antico pone medium rotundatus, 

 parum ampliatus, dein basi fere rectus, profunde crebreque punctatus, 

 punctis squamis repletis, in medio sat profunde canaliculatus atque 

 utrinque impressus, lateribus longitudinaliter apiceque transversim 

 sulcatis, margine laterum sat crassum, vix reflexuni, infra baud 

 excavaturn ; elytra elongata ; antice protboracis basi aequalia, post 

 medium baud ampliata, plana, apice breviter dehiscentia, rugosa, 

 margine laterali acuta costulisque duabus sinuosis, e rugis inter- 

 ruptis, irregularibus, formatis, apicem baud attingentibus, interstitiis 

 variolosis, utrinque prtedita ; corpus subtus pedesque ut in specie 

 praecedenti. Long. 8-10 mm. ; lat. 3i 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Ceres, Malmesbury). E. M. 

 Lightfoot, Dr. W. P.' Purcell. 



ASIDA LECTA. 



Nigra, indumento terreno obtecta, vix setulosa ; caput vertice tri- 

 impressum, lobis ante-ocularibus prominulis ; prothorax longitudine 

 tertio latior, apice circulatim emarginatus, basi breviter bi-sinuatus, 

 lateraliter ab apice pone medium late rotundato-ampliatus, dein basi 



