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ANOMALIPUS TURPIS. 



Niger, indumento terrene nonnunquam vestitus ; caput crebre 

 profundeque punctatum, antice profunde excisum ; prothorax longi- 

 tudine fere duplo latior, valde rotundato ampliatus, lateribus deflexus, 

 ad basim incisus, angulis posticis acutis a incisura longe retrorsum 

 ductis, apice in circulum etnarginatus, basi apice fere duplo latior, 

 leviter bi-sinuatus, supra nonnihil convexus, crebre angusteque scro- 

 biculatus, circa medium disci areolis parvis duabus notatus, intra 

 basim ad angulos utrinque leviter impressus ; elytra antice pro- 

 thoracis baseos baud latiora, pone humeros parum ampliata, pro- 

 thorace duplo longiora, in medio baud latiora, supra deplanata, 

 postice distincte inflexa, rotundata, fere verticalia, sutura carinaque 

 laterali acutis, carinisque granulosis, alternis magis elevatis, minori- 

 bus tuberculis minutis sat distantibus, utroque seriatis, praedita ; 

 corpus subtus iiitidum ; pedes validi, rugosi, tibiis anticis $ apice 

 interne mucronatisdenteque valida sub-perpendiculari inf erne arm atis, 

 extus valide bi-dentatis, intermediis posticisque leviter inflexis, supra 

 baud profunde canaliculatis, illis extus bi-dentatis. Long. 20 mm. ; 

 lat. 11-12 mm. 



This species belongs to the same group as A. (Acmceus) clcpliax, 

 lineatiiSj'podagricus, &c. ; it is allied to A. plebcins, Per. (Trans. Lond. 

 Entom. Soc., 1896, p. 169), but in this species the prothorax is not 

 scrobiculate, the posterior angles are much shorter, and the costas on 

 the elytra are carinate, smooth, and all of equal height instead of 

 being verrucose with the alternate ones very distinctly higher than 

 the others ; the anterior tibiae are provided with a similar sub-per- 

 pendicular tooth, but in A. turpis there is no trace of the broad 

 inward groove. 



Hab. Zambesia (Zambesi Falls), Dr. Bradshaw ; Ovarnpoland, 

 A. W. Eriksson. 



TEIBE TENEBKIONINI. 



GEN. NYCTEKOPUS, Casteln. 



NYCTEROPUS CAPENSIS, 



Plate VII., fig. 7. 



Niger, capite prothoraceque sub-opacis ; palpis, antennis tarsisque 

 rufo-piceis ; caput minutissime punctulato-rugosurn, inter antennas 

 transversim tenuiter impressum ; prothorax apice basique truncatus, 



