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dentate in the middle of the posterior margin, and even tri-dentate 

 in the large development, the impression or excavation is smooth, 

 but the whole of the surface, except a smooth narrow lateral band 

 and a still narrower, longitudinal median space reaching from the 

 excavation to the base, is covered with foveate punctures somewhat 

 rugose and nearly coalescing laterally in both sexes ; scutellum 

 smooth ; elytra impunctate and having on each side, apart from the 

 juxta-sutural stria, two extremely faint impressed lines hardly dis- 

 tinguishable in both sexes, but in the very small development there 

 are very faint traces of punctures ; lower part of pygidium smooth in 

 both sexes, upper part not closely punctate, and the punctures bear- 

 ing a long rufous seta ; anterior tibiae with the outer teeth sharply 

 dentate, and the apical spur reaching as far as the rounded basal 

 part of the apical tooth. 



Length 19-26 mm. ; width 10-14 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (? Otjimbingwe, Swakop Eiver). 



Temnoehynchus paunus, n. spec, 

 Plate XL., fig. 2t. 



T. clypeatus, Klug (female), Peters' Eeis., p. 251, pi. xiv., figs. 3, 

 13, 14. 



Black, shining, but occasionally reddish brown ; apical margin of 

 clypeus produced at each angle into a long, sub-horizontal tooth 

 slightly reflexed at apex and conspicuous in both sexes, frontal 

 carina sloping distinctly, lyre-shaped in the great development, very 

 deeply incised in large and small examples, the incision being 

 rounded, and the two walls straight and forming two vertical horns ; 

 the anterior part is very roughly shagreened, and hardly plicate 

 transversely at base ; prothorax very broadly and deeply excavated in 

 the male from the anterior margin to a very short distance from the 

 base, and having in the middle of the posterior margin of the smooth 

 excavation a conspicuous tubercle, the sides, except for a narrow 

 space along the outer margin, and the narrow, supra-basal space, are 

 conspicuously scrobiculate ; in the female the prothorax is not 

 excavate nor retuse in front, and the whole surface is covered with 

 broad, contiguous, non-scrobiculate foveas; scutellum smooth; elytra 

 having on each side three double, punctate striae, very distinct from 

 the base to two-thirds of the length, extending further towards the 

 apex in the female, and having conspicuous punctures in the 

 intervals ; under side as in the previous species ; apical outer tooth 

 of anterior tibiae moderately sharp, spur barely reaching the inner 

 rounded part of the apical outer tooth. 



