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but witli the humeral angle slightly sloping, cylindiical, and not 

 covering the pygidium behind, they are deeply punctato-striate, all 

 the strite reach the base and have one series of elongate, distant 

 punctures, the intervals are convex, costate from the median part, 

 carinate laterally, and have on each side a somewhat irregular 

 row of small punctures ; pygidium deeply and closely pitted ; meta- 

 sternum very long and broad, sub-aculeate in front and with the 

 aculeate part clothed with a similar pubescence at the base of the 

 prothorax, it is covered with deep foveate punctures, and has a very 

 deep, elongate impression reaching from the posterior coxa? to the 

 median part ; legs deeply punctate ; at the base of each dorsal 

 stria on the elytra there is also a small patch of this fulvous 

 squamose pubescence. 



Length 4^ mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hccb. Natal (Durban). 



Nothing is known of the habits of this singular insect, which 

 might easily be mistaken for an Apliodius. I believe it to have been 

 ■caught at the electric light lamps. 



Gen. COPTOEHINA, Hope, 

 Trans. ZooL Soc, i., 1830, p. 95. 



Mentum triangular, obtuse, rounded at tip, concave in the basal 

 part, not incised or emarginate at tip ; maxillary palpi short, basal 

 joint short, club shaped, second also short, moniliform, a little 

 shorter than the Ijasal one, third slightly longer than the second 

 and a little narrower, sub-cylindrical, rounded at tip ; ligula long, 

 bi-lobate ; maxillaj strong, upper lobe comparatively small ; third 

 joint of maxillary palpi strongly fusiform inwardly, straight out- 

 wardly where it is deeply grooved; antennye nine-jointed, basal 

 joint long, thick, very little curved, second moniliform, third cylin- 

 drical, half the length of the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth lamellate 

 and fitting closely against each other, first joint of the club 

 concave, apical one convex ; head with the clypeus deeply incised or 

 furcate, eyes showing little on the upper side, suture of genae dis- 

 tinct ; scutellum invisible ; body very convex ; prothorax usually 

 declivous in front ; elytra very deeply sinuate laterally above the 

 prosternal epimera, striate, stritc not geminate, eighth stria begin- 

 ning at the lateral sinuation ; epipleura narrow but distinct ; 

 pygidium small; metasternum very broad, nearly quadrate between 

 the coxae, and separated from the mesosternum by a distinct raised 

 line ; legs short, strong ; anterior tibiae tri-serrate at base, strongly 



