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Habitat in iractihus fluvii Gariepis. 



Cliai'opo pallipcdi magnitudine oequalis. Caput mag- 

 num, rotunclatum, protborace latins, coeruleum, nititlum, 

 sublilissime, crebre punctnlatnm, supra parum convexum, 

 antice leviter impressum; ore flavo-testaceoj palpis nigris, 

 maxilla ribus arliculo ultimo maximo, secnriformi; oculis 

 rotundatis, moclice convex is, nigris. Antennx' capite cum 

 prothorace dimitlio longiores, (ennes, filiformes, dilute 

 flava-, breviler pvibescentcs, articulis 5 ultimis nigro-fuscis, 

 Protliorax angustus, latitudine duple longior, ccerulens, 

 nitidus, apice subtruncatus, angulis oblnsis; lateribus mox 

 pone apicem leviter rotundato-ampliatus, infra medium 

 citius angnstalus, constrictus et transversim impressus, 

 basi pioductus, subtruncatus, dilute flavo-marginatus, an- 

 tice convexus, undique sublilissime punctulatus. Scutel- 

 lum mediocre, subelevatum, nigro-fuscum, subtiliter pun- 

 ctulatum, apice rotundatum. Elytra ovata, convexa, pro- 

 thorace vix duplo longiora, et antice basi ejus parum 

 latiora, bumeris elevatis, rotundatis; lateribus pone basin 

 ultra medium subito, oblique ampliata, apice conjunctim 

 late lotundata, breviter, parce cineieo-pubescentia, sub- 

 seriatim, anterius profundius, crebrius punctata, caerulea, 

 nitida, singulo intra basin et medium macula latcrali, 

 magna, transversa, extrorsum latiore, albida. Corpus sub- 

 tus nigro-ca-ruleum, subnitidum, obsolete, crebre punctu- 

 latum. Pedes longi, nigro-caerulescentes, nitidi; trochan- 

 teribus, femoribus basi, geniculis omnibus, tarsisque an- 

 forioribus, dilute flavis; tibiis posticis leviter inflexis. 



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517. Chalicorus albifrons: canuleus, nitidus, subtiliter 

 griseo-pubescens; fronte alba; antennis ultra medium, 

 femoribusque basi dilute flavis; prothorace oblongo, 

 antice convexo, postice valde angustato, constricto, fla- 

 vescenli-marginato; eljtris convexis, subserialim pro- 

 funde, posterius remotius punctatis, antice attenuatis; 



