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medio niotlice ampliata , npiconi versus angustata, opice 

 conjuDCfim roluiidafa , supra coiivexa, evitlenter, crebre 

 puncfiilata, hasi , viita sutuiali, ]a(a, ante apicem ab- 

 breviata, ibique extioisuin exciinente inaciilaqiie media, 

 sat niagiia, o\a(a, laleraJi, iiiyiis. Corpus sii!)tus crebre, 

 obsolete pi i net u latum. 



272. IIydroporls raficeps: ovatus, convexiis, nitidus, 

 supra niger, subtus (Vrrugineus; capite, antennis pedi- 

 busque ruiis, hoc medio sub-icmote, tiaiisversim pun- 

 ctulato; prothorace antice posticeque evidenter, sub- 

 remote, medio transversim, subtiliter riigoso-punctu- 

 lato, lateribus indeterminate rufo-ferrugiueoj elytris 

 sat crebre, mediocriter puiictatis; margine inflexo rufo. 

 Long. 4l, lat, 3 millim. 



Habitat ad roituni Natalense. 



H. rufifronti latior, brevior, magis convexus. Caput 

 supra })aullo convexum, riifiim, nilidum, laeve, medio 

 transversim, sub-remote punctulatiim, interdum leviter 

 infuscatum, antice utrinque oblique, obsolete impressum; 

 oculis rotiuidatis, niodice convexis, nigris, nitidis. An- 

 tennae rufo-ferriigincae, basi dilutiores. Prothorax la- 

 titudine postica t\;\e Iriplo brevior, antice leviter, late 

 rotundato-emarginatus, lateribus ab apice ad basin oblique 

 amj)liatus, postice utrinque sinuatus, medio triangulari- 

 ter, nonnihil productus, angulis antrorsum prominulis, 

 acuminatis, posticis fere reef is 5 supra convexiusculus, 

 niger, nitidus, antice posticeque evidenter, sub-remote, 

 medio transversim, subtiliter rugoso-punctulatus, lateri- 

 bus antice latius, versus basin obsoletius, ferrugineis. 

 Scutellum obtectuni. Elytra ovata, antice protboracis 

 basi non latiora, pone basin ad medivim modice rotun- 

 dato-ampliata , dein apicem versus citius angustata, apice 

 ipso conjiuictim rotundata, supra convexa, nigra, nitida, 

 sat crebie, vage, mediocriter punctata 5 margine inflexo 

 I'ufo- testaceo. Corpus subtus ferrugineum, nilidum. 



