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on the prothorax, there is a very l)road lateral hand, divided ohliquely 

 at the base by a narrow black band, and a median narrow one ; the 

 scales on the elyti'a are almost contiguous, and the pygidium, the 

 abdomen, the hind femora, and the sides of the metasternum are 

 entirely covered with golden green scales ; the anterior legs have no 

 basal outer tooth ; the hind tibiae are densely hairy, but the hairs are 

 slightly light fulvous in the inner part. 



Length H-9h mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Ilah. Cape Colony (Ceres). 



Anisonyx pauperatus, n. spec. 



Black ; head and prothorax clothed with dense, long, villose black 

 hairs ; the prothorax is sprinkled over with a few greenish blue 

 scales ; the elytra are clothed with long, greyish black hairs inter- 

 mingled with a few white, bristly ones, and have here and there 

 scattered bluish scales which, however, are denser along the outer 

 margin, and also in the depression between the suture and the 

 humeral costa ; the propygidium, the pygidium, and the abdomen 

 are clothed with similar scales which are not, however, quite 

 contiguous on the pygidium, which is clothed with black and white 

 long hairs; the species is allied to A. ursns, hwt it is smallei*, the 

 clypeus is narrower, but equally long and also incised at tip ; the 

 villosity is similar, and the anterior tibia ai'e more distinctly tri- 

 dentate. 



Length 8-9^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Beaufort West, Willowmore, 

 Graham's Town.) 



Anisonyx Elizabeths, n. spec, 



Eesembles much A. 2)aui)cratus, but the whole body is clothed with 

 black hairs, and the elytra alone are sprinkled with blue scales ; in 

 shape it is slightly shorter than A. pauperatus. 



Length 1\ mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Anisonyx smaragdinus, n. spec. 

 Black, tarsi piceous; head and prothorax covered with long, villose 

 l)lack hairs intei'spersed on the prothorax with a few longer, white, 

 bristly ones ; the sides of the prothorax are clothed with densely set 

 gem-like, shining, emerald green scales leaving only a somewhat 

 narrow median band of the background uncovered ; elytra covered 

 laterally with similar not quite contiguous scales which are thickly 



