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shagreened, but more regularly punctate in the posterior part ; pro- 

 thorax of the normal shape, and having a fringe of long, not closely 

 set hairs, it is covered with very closely set round punctui'es, and 

 has on the disk a very short, median impressed longitudinal line 

 which is often obliterated in the male ; scutellum with moderately 

 closely set punctures, and having in the female a distinct longitudinal 

 impressed line; elytra deeply punctato-striate in both sexes, and with 

 the intervals plainly costate, the punctures on the first one are very 

 coarse and closely set ; the pygidium is very closely aciculate and 

 is plainly fringed with somewhat long hairs all round, including the 

 basal part in the female, but the basal fringe is very short and not 

 dense in the male ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw 

 of the anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft ; pectus densely hairy in 

 the male, less so in the female. 



Length 13^-15 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Newcastle), Transvaal (Eustenburg). 



In two female examples from Eustenburg, the prothorax has the 

 whole of the median part fuscous.''' 



Anomala phthysica, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 40. 



Testaceous, with the posterior part of the head slightly infuscate, 

 and having on the elytra a triangular black patch extending on the 

 base as far as the fifth stria on each side and tapering into a sutural 

 border at about the median part ; tarsi piceous brown in some 

 examples ; clypeus nearly parabolic, very closely and deeply 

 punctured; the anterior pai't of the head is equally closely punctured, 

 but the punctures on the posterior part are regular and not so 

 closely set ; the anterior margin is only moderately reflexed ; pro- 

 thorax normally shaped, not fringed laterally with hairs, indistinctly 

 aciculate, and without any impressed median line ; scutellum in- 

 distinctly aciculate ; elytra with deep, somewhat regular series of 

 punctures, the intervals of which are very plainly costate ; the juxta- 

 sutural interval, instead of being filled with numerous irregular 

 punctures, is distinctly costate, and the irregular punctures are 

 restricted to the basal part ; pygidium very closely punctate ; pectus 

 very little villose; anterior tibiie bi-dentate outwai'dly, inner claw of 

 the anterior and intermediate tarsi not broad, and cleft in the male. 

 Female unknown to me. 



Length 12-13 mm.; width 6-6^ mm. 



* This variable species may prove to be identical with .1. ttstttluta, the armature 

 of the males being similar. 



