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(which I assume to be the typical form) the whole surface is densely 

 opaque, the prosternal groove, and the "pad" (or "bourrelet" of 

 Lacordaire) formed on each side by the widening out of this groove 

 anteriorly, is quite smooth and impunctate ; the meso- and metasterna 

 and the two first segments of the abdomen are moderately rugose and 

 punctured : in my fifth example, which I shall consider var. 5 (? a sex 

 of the type), the surface is not so opaque, the whole of the prosternum 

 between the coxae (both groove and pad) is very strongly corrugated, 

 and, on the pads, punctured ; the mesosternum is strongly and some- 

 what obliquely corrugated, the intervals between the corrugations being 

 coarsely punctured ; the metasternum is strongly reticulate-punctate ; 

 the first segment of the abdomen (and the second also, but in a less 

 degree), on the middle, is coarsely punctured and longitudinally 

 rugose : in my sixth example, which I shall consider var. c, the whole 

 surface is still less opaque than in var. 5, the markings on the under- 

 side are similar in character, but less strong in degree ; the head above 

 is glabrous, and the middle lobe of the ej)istoma is sub -truncated, and 

 without the three blunt teeth at the fore-margin: this var. would 

 seem to form a link connecting the two species, but there are, I think, 

 too many and important differences to permit of their being considered 

 as one species. 



Epiputsa ciliata, sp. n. 



In tliis species the form is more elongate and still more rcgnlarlj oval, and less 

 convex, than in the preceding ; the elytra are slighly opaque by their entire " gi'Oimd" 

 surface being very minutely granulated ; the head is more strongly villose above 

 than in i/. Jlavicollis, the hairs extending further down on each side, entirely filling 

 up the gi'ooves that mark off the lateral lobes of the epistoma ; the middle lobe of 

 the epistoma is squarely truncated in front ; the labrum is ciliate with long hairs 

 anteriorly ; the margins of the prothorax are rather coarsely punctured ; there are 

 also a few other punctures on each side, within the margin, both in front and at the 

 base, and from each of these punctures (as well as from those on the margin) arises 

 a long, pale-golden hair, those on the margin being sub-erect ; the discs of the elytra 

 (besides the "bottom" or "ground" character already mentioned) are vaguely 

 punctate, and are sprinkled with minute granules ; the sides, apex and epipleurre 

 are tuberculate as in the preceding species, but from each tubercle on the epipleiu-aj 

 arises a long, sub-erect, pale-golden hair, so that the elytra, when viewed from above, 

 appear ciliated ; the prosternum is not channelled throughout its length, but the 

 longitudinal depression is deeper and more marked than in the preceding species. 



Long. W\ lines. 

 Sal). : Angola ; a single example. 



ArTENIS HaAGI, sp. 11. 



Differs from A. rufescens in being smaller ; the colour, especially of the head 

 and prothorax (which approaches castancous) much deeper ; the antenna? and legs, 



