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densely squamose but has a denuded round patch on the stemmata; 

 the fore tibijfi are tri-dentate outwardly, but the basal tooth is small, 

 the anterior and intermediate claws are single but cleft ; the hind 

 femora are slender, densely scaly, simple, with the trochanters not 

 spinose ; hind tibiae as long as the femora, not much wider at apex 

 than near the base, simple, not mucronate, very densely hairy 

 inwardly, and without an apical spur. 



Female : Like the male, but wdth the scales distinctly flavescent, or 

 yellow ; hind tibiae with a long, apical spur. 



Length 7-7^ mm.; width 3-| mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon, Sw^ellendam, Uitenhage, Gi'aham's 

 Town). 



Gymnoloma sub sulcata, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 163. 



Female: Like Burmeister I know only the female of this insect, 

 and my example is also of Drege's collecting. Unlike other females 

 of this genus the fore tibiae are distinctly 1m -dentate ; the body 

 is black, covered with very short greyish hairs on the head and 

 prothorax, the latter being fringed with the customary bristly mar- 

 ginal long hairs, and the median sulcus and the sides have a few 

 scattered, elongate whitish scales, which sparsely cover the scutellum ; 

 the elytra are distinctly bi-costulate on each side, the outer costa 

 disappearing past the median part, and the space between the costae 

 is filled with not closely set, elongate white scales, the whole 

 pygidial part and under side are densely scaly, the scales ])eing 

 elongate ; the hind legs are as in the preceding species, but the tibiae 

 are more dilated at the apex, and have a distinct apical spur; the 

 clypeus is attenuate laterally, bluntly triangular and slightly refiexed 

 at tip. 



Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



Gymnoloma ingloriosa, n. spec. 

 Black, with the elytra cliocolate-brown, opaque; there are a few 

 sparse scales along the margin, and also in the median longitudinal 

 groove of the prothorax, vex'y few only along the elytral suture, 

 but the whole under side is clothed with white scales, and the propy- 

 gidium is also densely scaly, but has a longitudinal denuded band ; 

 legs black ; in shape this species resembles G. atoinaria; the clypeus 

 is similar; the prothorax is more densely villose ; the elytra are 

 shghtly yet plainly costulate, and covered with contiguous, somewhat 



