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punctures are decidedly smaller, with the rows more approximate. 

 Length 2 lines. 



Rechodes [Colydiidae]. 

 Erichsou, Naturg, der Ins. Deutschl. iii. p. 255. 



Rechodes verrucosus. 



E. niodice convexus, fuscus ; elytris antice subgibbosis, tuberculis ob- 

 longis disco instructis. 



Hab. Natal. 



Moderately convex, dark brown, more or less clouded with a lighter 

 shade, or even inclining to grey; head with a line of four tubercles 

 between the eyes, the antennary orbit large, a semicircular impression 

 above the epistome ; mentum large, quadrate ; labium transverse, entire, 

 ciliated in front; prothorax very transverse, wider than the elytra, 

 the sides strongly dilated and margined with a double series of equal 

 serriform tubercles, and deeply sinuated in front for the reception of the 

 head, the disc with a row of five tubercles on each side the central 

 line, the anterior pair accompanied by two others placed on the edge of 

 the prothorax ; scutellum small, quadrate ; elytra seriato-punctate, 

 slightly gibbous at the base, so as to be above the line of the prothorax, 

 a row of small tubercles along the side, above this another of three 

 oblong tubercles, followed by a third row which is incomplete in the 

 middle, and lastly close to the suture is a line of smaller tubercles rim- 

 ning, with a slight interruption posteriorly, to the apex, — the sides less 

 strongly dilated than in the prothorax, but edged with a double row of 

 serriform tubercles of the same size (in some specimens there is a lighter 

 shade posteriorly, forming a band-like mark) ; antennae, palpi, and eyes 

 ferruginous, with a paler pubescence ; body beneath dark brown, 

 covered with small tubercles. Length 3 lines. 



Rechodes fallax. 



R. fere convexus, fuscescens ; elytris antice subdepressis, tuberciilis ob- 

 longis instructis. 



Hab. Natal. 



Closely allied to the former, but is smaller, less convex, the elytra 

 naiTower, and their base being depressed, they are on the same line 

 with the prothorax ; the disposition of the tubercles is almost precisely 

 the same, except perhaps that they may be a trifle less marked ; the 

 colom- in both species is somewhat variable. Length 2i lines. 



Rechodes slgnatus. 



R. subdepressus, fuscus ; prothoracis lateribus, elytrorumque macula 



magna albescentibus. 

 Hab. Natal. 



