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fronte declivi profunde impressa, vertice valde gibbose bituberculato 

 a sulco longitudinal! lato profunde diviso ; prothorax longitudine 

 baud latior, antice postice nonnihil angustior, fere ad medium 

 laterum profunde impressus, dein ad basim peiparum ampliatus, 

 lateribus abrupte declivis margine laterali arcuatim incisa, supra 

 utrinque bi-tuberculatus, tuberculis anticis posticis altipribus, disco 

 a medio usque ad basim gradatim gibboso, gibbositate a tuberculis 

 lateralibus sulco longitudinali supra laterali sinuoso profundo divisa ; 

 scutellum triangulum, fossula nulla ; elytra prothoracis latitudinem 

 maximam baud excedentia, fere quinto longiora, pone humeros longe 

 valdeque sinuata, postice gradatim dehiscentia, apice singulatim 

 modice rotundata, a basi fere usque ad partem quartam longitudinis 

 distincte transverse plicata, plicis irregularibus, elevatis, apicem 

 versus coriacea ; pygidium rude coriaceum, in medio longitudi- 

 naliter carinatum, apice sub-emarginatum ; corpus subtus profunde 

 confei'teque punctatum, setis nonnullis albidis aspersum. 



Long. 7-9 mm. ; lat. 2i-3 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Leydenburg, Leydsdorp). T. Naughton. 



Gen. PHLOCTEIS, Kerrem. 



Phlocteis ditissima, n. sp. 



Plate VI., fig. 6. 



Nigro-caerulea, capite prothoraceque orichalceis, pube albida 

 sparsim maculatis, rude profundeque punctatis, illo tuberculis validis 

 quinque, munito ; prothorax longitudine fere duplo latior, ad basim 

 modice ampliatus angulis posticis acutis, dorso valde elevatus, in 

 disco 10-tuberculatus, tuberculis rotundatis cupreo-nitentibus, carina 

 flexuosa supra laterali atque tuberculo retrorsum hamato utrinque 

 praeditus ; scutellum elongatum, acute trigonum ; elytra prothorace 

 baud latiora humeris alte callosis, ante medium coarctata, apice 

 nonnihil singulatim sub-rotundata, supra plana costa longitudinali in 

 medium dorsi ad apicem utrinque obliterata, brevissime nigro tomen- 

 tosa callis humeralibus costaque orichalceis, lituris flexuosis albidis 

 in medium disci evanescentibus fasciaque transversa supra apicali 

 distinctiore ornata ; corpus subtus caeruleum, abdomen convexum, 

 elytris latius, segmento secundo tertioque supra albo fasciatis, subtus 

 lateraliter strigosis, in medio punctatis, plagis binis albo sericeis 

 utrinque ornatis ; pedes atro cyanei, coxis genubusque laete 

 cupreis. 



Long. 18 mm. ; lat. 6 mm. 



This remarkable species resembles P. exasperata, but it differs 



