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margin, the anterior angles obtusely angularly produced, a pro- 

 minent rounded tubercle on 

 each lateral margin behind the 

 anterior lobe, the posterior 

 lateral angles prominent and 

 suberect, their apices somewhat 

 conical ; scutellum with a long 

 apical, erect, slender, pitchy- 

 brown spine ; abdomen ovate, 

 longer than greatest width, 

 basal segment with a narrow 

 basal transverse elevation with 

 a small tubercle at each ex- 

 tremity, lateral margins dilately 

 reflexed, apical segment sub- 

 concavely attenuated on each 

 side, the segmental margins 

 piceously determinated. 

 Long. 20 mm. 

 Hob. Cape Colony ; Dun- 



brody. 



A large species somewhat allied to H. farinator, Reut., but 



differing by the tubercles to the lateral pronotal margins, the 



totally different shape of the posterior pronotal lobe, shorter third 



joint of antennas, longer head, &c. 



) 



HOLOTIUCHIUS SEGMENTAKIUS. 



GENUS PIRATES. 



Pirates, Serv., Ann. Sc. Nat. xxiii. p. 215 (1831). 

 Pirates, Burm. (part), Handb. ii. pp. 222 and 239 (1835). 

 Type, P. Jiybridus, Scop. 



PlUATfiS MONTIVAGUS, sp. 11. 



Entirely black ; head opaque black, about as long as the anterior 

 lobe of the pronotum, a short central longitudinal incision in front 

 of the ocelli which are prominent and shining ochraceous in hue ; 

 antenna fuscously pilose, the basal joint almost smooth, shorter 

 than head, second and third joints subequal in length, each a little 

 shorter than pronotum; rostrum with the first joint a little shorter 

 than the second; pronotum glossy, shining black, anterior lobe 

 longer and narrower than the posterior lobe, coarsely longitudinally 

 grooved, the anterior angles strongly nodulose, the lateral margins. 



