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laterally and densely pubescent like the inner part of the femora 

 and legs, the pubescence being whitish. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4f-5f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, East London) ; Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom) ; Natal (Frere) ; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, 

 Umfuli Eiver) ; also Eastern Central Africa. 



{Species not identified.) 



Cymophorus semiluctuosus, Blanch., 

 Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus., Paris, 1850, p. 3. 

 " Black, punctate ; head maculated with white ; prothorax convex, 

 outer margin dentate, shoulders and also two basal spots white ; 

 elytra bi-strigose, excavated, and having a maculate abbreviated 

 median band with the outer margin bi-dentate, and a humeral, as 

 well as an apical spot white. 

 Length 10 mm. 

 Hab. Caffraria." 



Gen. SPILOPHOBUS, Lacord., 



Gener. d. Coleopt., hi., 1856, p. 545 ; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., 1874, p. 28. 



Pseudospilophorus, Kraatz. Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899, 

 p. 63. 



Mentum strongly gibbose at about the median part of the outer 

 side, sloping at a somewhat sharp angle to the anterior margin 

 which is sinuate in the centre with the angles moderately rounded, 

 the central part of the outer face is deeply grooved as far as the apex 

 of the gibbose part, the palps cavity reaches from apex to base, the 

 sub-cylindrical, curved last palpal joint is long ; the maxillae are 

 somewhat robust and elongated, both the lobes have a long, falcate 

 tooth, the lower one somewhat sinuate inwardly at the tip, last joint 

 of maxillary palps fusiform, truncate at tip ; head simple, dypeus 

 slightly deflexed, anterior margin raised and sub-triangularly reflexed 

 in the centre, eyes large, canthus long ; antennal club small ; pro- 

 thorax sub-trapeziform, arcuately emarginate above the scutellum 

 which is long and very sharp ; elytra broader than the prothorax, 

 deeply sinuate laterally, almost parallel thence, non-costulate ; pro- 

 pygidium very broadly uncovered and with the spiracle sub-conical; 

 pygidium broader than long, arcuate at apex, indistinctly sub-cari- 

 nate in the centre; metasternum triangularly produced between the 



