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margin narrowly iul'uscate. Head and neck deeply plicate. Prothorax narrow, 

 constricted at each end, bnt more deeply so in front, where it is also wider 

 than at the base, and not bnlging laterally in the middle, deeply plicate trans- 

 versely, and with a slightly impressed longitndinal line uniting the two constricted 

 transverse parts ; the discnidal part is not depressed. Elytra narrow, elongated, 

 sinuate laterally above the intermediate coxae, and slightly elongate-ampliate 

 thence towards the apical part, where they are produced into two long divaricating 

 spines, the outer apical angle being noticeable, but very short ; at their widest 

 part the elytra are nearly three times as wide as at the very narrow basal part ; 

 the suture is sharply raised, but there is only a faint trace of an elongated 

 impression alongside of it in the anterior part ; the whole surface is covered 

 with a network of deep irregularly arranged foveae, separated by a very narrow 

 sharp wall, as broad and as deep in the posterior as in the anterior j)arts, and 

 reflecting a bronze or dark coppery sheen ; in the widest part of each elytrnm 

 there is an irregularly quadrate yellowish patch, and a supra-marginal band of 

 the same colour, beginning close to, but underneath, the dorsal patch and 

 reaching the apical outer angle. 



Length (spin, excl.), 12 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Dr. W. Horn informs me that this species is identical with the example in 

 the British Museum which I mentioned in my description of M. foveolata P6r. 

 {Descr. Cat. Col. S. Afric, Cicindel. 1893. p. 64) as differing somewhat from 

 the type of the latter, and to which it seems I fixed a label bearing the name 

 of D. specialis. I may also mention that, according to Horn, who has seen 

 the types of both, Myrmecoptera foveolata P6r. is the same sjjecies as M. granulata 

 Dokth., and this latter name must therefore prevail. 



TENEBRIONIDAE. 



OPATRINAE. 



3. Anomalipus spectandus spec. nov. 



i. Black, covered with an earthy substance in the cavities. Head of the 

 normal shajie. Prothorax much depressed, very broadly rotundate-ampliate 

 laterally, and narrower and also straighter in the posterior part towards the 

 straight basal angle ; it is covered with foveae, and has on the centre of the 

 disc four smooth aerolets inclosing four more or less distinct impressions. Elytra 

 nearly parallel, only slightly wider across the posterior declivity than at about 

 two centimetres from the shoulders, which are slightly diagonally narrowed, a 

 little more convex towards the median part than most of the species of this 

 group, and having on each side three rows of small tubercles, closely set, but 

 coalescing only on the first row, near the base ; the suture is more closely 

 tuberc\dated, and the outer margin sharp and slightly impressed transversely 

 at eijuidistant intervals. Anterior tibia not serrate inwardly, strongly bidentate 

 outwardly ; the apical part is simple, but tliere is a strong vertical tooth under- 

 neath the two inner apical spurs. 



Length, 25 mm. ; width, 11 mm. 



Allied to A. .Kulptaratus P6r. ; the elytra are, however, a little more convex 

 in the dorsal part at about the median part, and the costules, instead of being 

 round and smooth, consist of rows of small, closely-set tubercles. 



