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with a few scattered granules on each side of the base, becoming 

 denser in the centre and replaced in the anterior part by foveolate 

 punctures the intervals of whicli are finely granulose ; prothorax 

 convex, very finely aciculate rather than shagreened, and having 

 laterally some minute granules hardly visible ; the outer margin is 

 very feebly sinuate a little past the middle, and slightly rounded 

 towards the base with the marginal carina angulate ; elytra as in 

 the preceding species, but a little less elongate, the striae are not 

 so deep, and the intervals are a little more roughly shagreened ; 

 pygidiuni aciculate ; metasternum produced in a triangular process 

 similar to that of G. mashunas, and with the same sculpture; legs 

 similar. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 13 mm. 



This species is to be distinguished from G. azureus as well as from 

 G. iwofanus and G. chloris by the prothorax being more rounded 

 laterally towards the base. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



Gymxopleurus FASTiDiTus, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft. 1867, i., p. 74. 

 ? G. munclus, McLeay, Hor. Entom., 1821, p. 510. 



Dark bronze, sub-opaque on the upper side, legs and under side 

 dark cyaneous ; head covered with granules not closely set, anterior 

 part of clypeus sub-fossulate ; prothorax covered with small but very 

 distinct granules not set close to one another ; the carina of the 

 outer margin is distinctly sinuate in the middle and slightly rounded 

 towards the base where it is slightly recurved, and distinctly 

 angular ; in the centre of the disk there is a very indistinct lineiform 

 longitudinal impression ; elytra finely striate, intervals finely 

 shagreened and with minute granules springing from a puncture- 

 like impression, not closely set, and more shiny than the background ; 

 pygidium finely granulose ; metasternum produced in a sharp 

 aculeate process the basal part of which is impressed transversely ; the 

 sides of the metasternum are closely granulose, but the median part 

 is very slightly punctate and has a very faint median line reaching 

 from near the base to about two-thirds of the length ; anterior tibiae 

 of male a little incurved and broadening at tip where they are 

 slightly emarginate inwardly a little below the apex, but the apical 

 part is mucronate in the male. 



Length 19-21 mm. ; width 13-14 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Salisbury). 



