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and somewhat coarser in the female than in the male, in which sex 

 the anterior margin bears a few scattered, long flavescent hairs 

 which are entirely wanting in the female in which also the prothorax 

 is wholly black, whereas in the male there is a broad supra-lateral, 

 rufo-flavescent band ; scutellum cordiform but somewhat acute at 

 tip ; elytra plane, elongate, narrower at apex than at base, having on 

 each side a longitudinal impression between the humeral part and 

 the suture, this latter part being plainly convex in the posterior 

 part ; the testaceous yellow elytra have an elongated discoidal, black 

 median patch on each side, a sutural black band beginning at about 

 the median part, and very narrow there, but widening as it reaches 

 the apex, and an outer marginal black band, tapering, however, in 

 the direction of the base ; pygidium and abdomen black, glabrous ; 

 anterior tibiae sharply tri -dentate ; tarsi longer than the tibia?, the 

 intermediate ones strongly curved inwardly at apex in the male, 

 spurs of hind tibiae not compressed in the female, and although 

 slightly thicker than in the male, yet nearly equally sharp. 



Length 12-14^ mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, 

 Paarl, Worcester). 



Agexius clavus, Schaum., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 422. 

 3 clcgans, Per., Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, vi., 1892, p. 115. 

 $ grandis, Per., loc. cit., hi., 1885, p. 100. 



Male : Black, with the elytra pale flavescent and having a narrow 

 outer marginal black band, the suture has a moderately broad black 

 band ascending from the apex to the median part, where it some- 

 times expands in a short triangular patch ; the clypeus is acuminate 

 as in the preceding species, but is straight in front, the head and 

 prothorax are similarly shaped and sculptured, the latter has a 

 median groove and is either moderately pubescent or almost 

 glabrous ; the elytra are not quite as narrowly elongate as in 

 A. limbatus, but the sculpture is the same; the under side is 

 moderately pubescent. 



Female : More elongated than the male, but equally plane, and 

 with the clypeus more attenuate laterally towards the tip, the punc- 

 tures on the head and prothorax are coarser and deeper; the whole 

 body is black, and the elytra are deeply and somewhat coarsely 

 punctate ; the under side is glabrous. 



Length 12^—18 mm. ; width 6^-9 mm. 



Hub. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



