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parallel : tlie vertical lateral part is noi iini)resse(l, there is a slightly 

 iuipressed median longitudinal line heginning at about middle and 

 reaching the Inise, and the whole surface is covered with nearly rigid, 

 very dense hairs ; elytra of the same shape as the species preceding, 

 having no distinct trace of striae, and covered with series of hairs 

 curled at tip, the alternate duplicate series always more or less 

 raised than the others ; pygidium fringed laterally with curling hairs, 

 and having in the centre a longitudinal row of the same ; femora and 

 tibiae without any spine or tooth, posterior trochanters projecting 

 very slightly ; posterior tibiae regularly arcuate and closely serrate 

 inwardly ; the female shows no difference from the male, except that 

 the tibiae are slightly less arcuate ; sheaths of the penis rather long 

 for the size of the species, sinuate for half the length from the base, 

 declivous at tip, but not curved. 

 Length 4-8 mm. ; width 3-5 mm. 



It often happens that through the hairs being partly rubbed oft 

 in the intervals, the duplicate alternate series, which are always 

 a little stitfer and longer, show more in some examples ; to such 

 Boheman has given the name of S. sordid lis. They are not, 

 however, to my mind, even a variety, and I have come to this 

 conclusion after having examined a good many examples. The 

 mere rubbing with a camel-hair brush after relaxing will cause the 

 hairs of the intervals to fall off before the others. The shape of 

 the sheaths of the penis is the same for »S'. gorijl, and for the typical 

 S. sordidus, Boh. The range of this species is very great. I have 

 examples from Somaliland, showing no difference whatever with the 

 South African ones. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Queen's Town, Kimberley), Natal (Durban, 

 Frere, Maritzburg), Transvaal (Boksburg, Lydenburg, Potchef- 

 stroom). Lower Ehodesia (Sahsbury, Victoria Falls, Manicaland, 

 Buluwayo), Ovampoland (Humbe). 



Sisyphus nanniscus, n. spec. 

 Eeddish brown, slightly metallic ; legs redder ; head with the 

 median teeth of the clypeus well developed, the lateral one as 

 well as the apex of genae being hardly distinct, finely punctured 

 and slightly pubescent ; the prothorax is convex, not declivous in 

 front, normally attenuate laterally in the anterior part and covered 

 with minute sub-flavescent hairs ; elytra normal, indistinctly striate, 

 £pnd having regular series of ver^' minute, sub-erect hairs ; trochanters 

 not projecting, posterior tibiae arcuate, sub-serrulate inwardly in 

 the 3 , and not at all in the $ . 



