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apicem baud attingente, interiore humiliore and breviore, margins 

 laterali reflexa, carinata ; rudimento costee tertias a medio ad 

 apicem magis conspicuo ; epipleura angusta, canaliculata, fere levia ; 

 pectus prosternumque griseo pilosa, pedes elongati, graciles, tibiis 

 posticis sinuatis. Long. 16-17 mm. ; lat. 6-7 mm. 



Hal. Cape Colony (Garies). M. Schlechter. 



A very distinct species but not unlike in general facies T. 

 acuminatus. 



TBACHYNOTUS HAAGI, 

 Plate VI., fig. 18. 



Niger, opacus, elytris sub-nitidis, protborace elytrisque glabris ; 

 caput deflexum, inter antennas profounde transversim impressum, 

 sparse punctulatum, epistoma labrumque pilosa, oculi magni, antice 

 emarginati ; prothorax ab apice ante medium dilatatus, postice 

 leviter attenuatus, apice basique truncatus, latitudine maxima 

 dimidio brevior, supra parum convexus marginibus acutis a medio 

 reflexis, confertim punctulatus, disco in medio, linea brevi impresso; 

 elytra elongata, humeris sub-rotundatis, medio prothorace vix diniidio 

 latiora, fere triplo longiora, postice valde acuminata, supra vix 

 convexa, carina suturali integra costaque discoidali fere apicem 

 attingente acute elevatis, margine laterali acuta, reflexa, interstitiis 

 granulis acutis irregulariter tri-seriatis obsitis ; corpus subtus griseo 

 pilosum ; pedes elongati, graciles, pubescentes, tibiis posticis 

 sinuatis. Long. 16 mm. ; lat. 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Pella). G. Alston. 



I do not know of any otber species to which T. liaacji could be 

 compared. 



TRACHYNOTUS ADVENTITUS. 



Niger, sub-opacus, glaber ; caput punctulatum, deflexum, antice 

 profunde transversim impressum, medio leviter sulcatum ; prothorax 

 apice basique truncatus, lateribus rotundato ampliatis, latitudine 

 maxima fere duplo brevior, supra parum convexus, crebre aciculatus, 

 lateribus baud deplanatis, marginatis, medio obsolete canaliciilato ; 

 elytra elongata, antice prothoracis basi baud latiora, pone humeros 

 ampliata, medio prothoracis latitudine maxima dimidio ( $ ) vel triplo 

 ( ? ) latiora, fere triplo longiora, postice modice acuminata, granulis 

 acutis sat confertim obsita, carina suturali apicem attingente 

 alteraque discoidali ante apicem abbreviata, in singulo praedita; 

 margine laterali acuta, reflexa; epipleura kevia, in medio canaliculata; 



