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sculptured, and hairy ; the sides of the sternum are more aciculate. 

 The legs are similar in shape to that of the females of the genus, 

 dark black-green externally with the feet red-brown and spiny, in- 

 ternally they have long hairs ; fore tibiae very broad, and with three 

 outer teeth. 



Length 6 lines. 



Hab. Port Natal." 



I am not aware that this species has been met again. Burmeister 

 adds that it is easily distinguished from its congeners not only by 

 its thicker build but also by the decidedly finer punctuation of the 

 prothorax. He instances also the difference of habitat, but I am 

 somewhat doubtful as to the authenticity of the latter as given by 

 Drege. 



Gen. STEIPSIPHEE, Catal. ii., p. 304. 



Stripsipher jansoni, n. sp. 



Black with a few white splashes on the margins of the prothorax ; 

 elytra flavescent and having an U-shaped black band reaching from 

 the humeral ridge to past the median part, and a narrow marginal 

 band becoming very broad in the posterior margin ; pygidium with 

 a conspicuous sub-triangular lateral white patch, abdominal segments 

 each with a longitudinal interrupted white band, pro-, meso-, and 

 metathorax, and also the coxae with a white patch ; antennae and 

 palps brick-red, legs reddish with the hind tibiae and tarsi infuscate 

 ( $ ), or completely black with only the antennae reddish brown ( $ ). 

 Head with the clypeus deeply incised in the centre, the whole sur- 

 face is deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax obliquely ampliated 

 laterally from the apex to about the median part, nearly parallel 

 thence to the basal angle which is sharp, base deeply bi-sinuate and 

 with the median part somewhat prolonged, the surface is depressed 

 and somewhat irregularly and not closely punctulate, there is above 

 the base a slight longitudinal elongated impression continued in the 

 J in a very faint line, and the outer margin is sparingly fimbriate ; 

 scutellum moderately punctulate ; elytra once and a half the length 

 of the prothorax, broader than the latter but with the humeral callus 

 greatly developed and the humeral part greatly sloping, very nearly 

 straight laterally for some distance from the shoulders, singly 

 rounded behind, the suture and two alternating costae on each side 

 are raised and so is the second interval but in the anterior part only, 

 the humeral costa is very strong, ami the intervals and sides have 

 deep seriate sub-foveolate punctures ; pectus and femora clothed 

 with a long greyish pubescence, legs sparingly punctate ; pectus and 

 side pieces variolose punctate. 



