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hair-like scales which are more regularly disposed along the suture, 

 although not forming a band, they are very deeply emarginate laterally 

 past the humeral part, greatly narrowed towards the apex, leaving a 

 great part of the dorsal surface of the abdomen uncovered ; anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate, the teeth widely separated, hind legs very slender, 

 tibiae longer than the femora, and having a very distinct apical spur ; 

 hind tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae ; hind claws double and both 

 cleft, inner one not quite half as long as the outer. 



Female : Like the male, but the two angles of the apical part of 

 the clypeus are not quite as much reflexed, the elytra are testaceous 

 red from a small distance from the base right to the apex, and the 

 legs are reddish. 



Length 4i— 5 mm. ; width 2-2 i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Tulbagh, Malmesbury, 

 Namaqualand). 



KuBousA VENUSTA, n. spec. 



Male : Very closely allied to K. axillaris ; it differs in the less 

 elongated shape of the body, w^hich is a little broader in proportion to 

 the length ; the prothorax, instead of being opaque and very finely 

 aciculate, is shining and either impunctate or has only a few scattered 

 punctures in the discoidal part ; the elytra are also more shiny and 

 less closely punctate, the sub-basal red patch is often less plainly 

 visible, and the round scales on the pygidium are bright yellow. 



Female : Shape of the male, but the prothorax is more punctate, 

 and in all my examples the elytra are red, but have a broad, basal, 

 black band. 



Length 3^4^ mm. ; width 2J-3 mm. 



Hal. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



KuBOUSA GENTILIS, D. speC. 



Male : ^ueous black, with the elytra somewhat brownish red in 

 the anterior part, covered with small, elongate, white scales on the 

 prothorax, and also on the elytra, pygidial part abdomen and pectus 

 also covered with similar scales which are contiguous ; head elongate, 

 clypeus sub-parallel and with the anterior angles a little rounded, the 

 apical part is emarginate in the centre and reflexed, club of antennae 

 somew^hat elongate ; prothorax distinctly emarginate laterally in the 

 posterior part and with the posterior angle somewhat sharp and pro- 

 jecting ; scutellum elongate, narrowly ogival and having a few scales ; 

 elytra elongate, very distinctly narrowed laterally towards the apex 

 and strongly sinuate below the shoulder, thus leaving a somewhat 



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