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the latter slender ai.d normal; antennae stout, soraawhat lou'^er thau 

 the head and prothorax, gradually and strougl}' iucrassate distally, the 

 outer joints less than twica as ■wide as long, the second and third 

 moderately elougite, equal, the fourth obtraptzoidal, as long as the 

 fifth but much narrower; prothorax three-fifths wider than long, 

 strongly narrowed from base to apex, with the sides strougly and evenly 

 arcuate, the base evenly arcuate; punctuies like those of the head, very 

 minute and rather sparse, eveoly di^'^tributed; elytra short, hut little 

 wider than the prothorax, the sides much shorter than those of the lat- 

 ter, the suture barely three- fifths as long as the median line; punc- 

 tures small but strong, close-set and veiy strongly asperate; abdomen 

 at base almost as wide as theeiytia, gradually but only very feebly nar- 

 rowed thence to tip, finely but strongly, asperately and rather closely 

 punctured, sparsely so toward tip; hind tarsi very nearly as long as the 

 tibiae, with the basal joint longer than the next two combined and 

 much longer than the fifth; mesosterual ridge feebly elevated, the finely 

 cariniform summit even throuiihout, setose toward tip. Length 3.6 



mm.; width 1.2 mm. South Africa (Wellington) subaspera n. sp. 



Form less stout, parallel, equally convex, deep blacli throughout; antennae 

 black, faintly piceous at base, the legs paler, rufo-piceous; pubtscence 

 very short, dark and inconspicuous; head and antennae nearly as in 

 subaspera, the latter somewhat shorter and more incrassate, not as long 

 as the head and prothorax, the penultimate joint very nearly twice as 

 wide as long; prothorax minutely, sfiarsely and evenly punclulate, trans- 

 verse, nearly as in the preceding but rather less narrowed from base to 

 apex, with more arcuate sides; elytra not at all wider though shorter 

 than the prothorax, tl;e suture nearly two-thirds as long as \ne median 

 line, the punctures fine, less close-set but almost as strongly asperate; 

 abdomen as wide as the elytra, arcuately narrowing ia apical haif, finely, 

 asperately and less closely punctate; hind tarsi as long as the tibiae; 

 mesosternal ridge low, the summit finely and strongly cariniform 

 anteriorly but broadening into a transversely rounded polished surface 

 posteriorly with setae toward tip as usual. Length 2.9 mm.; width 0.9 

 mm. South Africa (Cape Town) stibiosa n. sp. 



Ceranota Steph. — The characters of the description giveu 

 above are drawn from a specimen kindly given me by Mr. 

 A. Fauvel, under the name erytlivoptera Grav. It is a highly 

 specialized genus, remarkable not only in the broad turgitical 

 impressions, but in the very large shallow excavation occasion- 

 ally observable at the bases of the second and third ventrals, 

 which may be sexual, and the male tubercles of the first one 

 or two and the fifth dorsal plates. In the long and well 

 developed, externally sinuate elytra and other characters, 

 such as the feebly inflexed hypomera and conformation of the 

 intermesocoxal ptirts, it is an evident ally of RJieochara, and 



