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salibus serUdis, distinct is, aliisiiue fere irregular iter sparsis ; scute! lo 

 crehre fortiter punctato ; eli/tris sat fortiter pioictato-striatis, versus 

 apicem setis erectis paucis ; epipleuris setulosis ; ahdomine puhescente, 

 crebre punctato, siih-opaco. Long. 6 mm. 



I have 110 doubt the individual described is a male ; the front tarsi 

 are quite simple, the apex of the hind trochanters forms a curved tooth, 

 and the hind margin of the posterior femur shows also a slender 

 curved spine on the middle. 



Found in N. "W. Australia by Mr. Duboulay, and placed in Mr. 

 Saunders' collection among the Bolboceri, to which insects, the short 

 antennae with broad club, give it at first sight some resemblance. 



Tliornhill : August loth, 1876. 



DIAGNOSES OF UNDESCEIBED SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGA. 

 BY JOSEPH S. B.iLT, :\r.D., F.L.S. 

 HORATOPYGA OE?.'ATA. 



Late ovata, valde convexa, rufo-picea, nitida, genubus, tibiis, tarsis 

 antennisque piceis ; tliorace tenuiter punctulato, ad latera leviter ex- 

 cavato, lateribus ampliato-rotundatis, basi constrictis ; elytris confuse 

 seriatim punctulatis, violaceis, singulatim pustuUs novem, — 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 

 dispositis, — fulvis, ornatis. • Lonq. 4 lin. 



Hab. : Guinea, Camaroons. 



HORATOPTGA SaUXDEESI. 



Ovata, convexa, rvfo-fulva, nitida, tliorace irregular iter punctato, 

 ad latera foveolato-punctatis, lateribus leviter rotundatis, ad apicem 

 angustatis ; angulis anticis obtusis ; elytris piceo-ceneis, sat fortiter 

 punctato-striatis, striis ad latera confusis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. : Algoa Bay. 



HORATOPYGA SEJU>'CTA. 



Ovata, convexa, rufo-fulva, nitida ; capite sat fortiter punctato ; 

 tliorace ad latera varioloso, disco tenuiter sub-remote punctato, lateribus 

 a basi ad apicem rotundato-angustatis ; angulis anticis sub-acutis ; elytris 

 nigro-piceis, regulariter punctato-striatis. Lonq. 2 lin. 



Hab. : South Africa. Graham's Town. 



