78 Mr. W. F. Kirby's 



48, Ghrotogonus capitatus, sp. u. 



Long. corp. cum tegni. 20-24 inillim. 



Dark brown, head and thorax very rugose, and strongly granu- 

 lated. P'acial carina) broad, undulating, diverging beneath, imperfect 

 carinte running down both before and behind the eye. Vertex 

 with two arched carinre between the eyes ; antennae testaceous, 

 varied with black on the terminal half. Behind the carinas on the 

 vertex several smaller ridges run backwards, diverging. On the 

 occiput stands a large black triangle, between which and the ridges 

 (which are placed on an imperfect black band) is an oblique tawny 

 band spotted with black. Prothorax (viewed from the side) trilo- 

 bate ; on each -side of the first ridge stands a lower carina, and on 

 each side of the central carina of the hinder lobe of the prothorax 

 are three more carinas, two short, terminal, and the third more 

 central. Hinder lobe of the prothorax triangularly produced, and 

 broadly truncate at the extremity. Tegmina brown, indistinctly 

 spotted with darker brown, with very strongly-marked raised 

 nervures and several rows of granules. Abdomen thickly punctured, 

 under-surface tawny in front, yellow further back, and blackish 

 towards the extremity, and marked with a double row of large 

 black spots. Middle femora carinated, hind femora strongly granu- 

 lated, tibiai spotted with blackish. 



Long. Corp. 24 millim. 



Hah. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant). 



Three specimens — two males and one female ; the female 

 is much more nnifornily coloured than the type, and wants 

 the peculiar markings on the head. It has also two more 

 distinct blackish bands across the tegmina. 



49, Ghrotogonus meridiunalis. 



Chrotogonns mcridionalis, Saussure, Dist. Nat, Transv., 

 p, 262, pi. iv, fig, 5 (1892). 



Hah. Transvaal : Zoutpansberg (Distant). 



50. Chrotogonus distanti, sp, n. 



Male. Clay-yellow, varied with black on the head, tliorax, and 

 basal segments of the abdomen ; antenna- black, with the l)asal 

 joints, and one or two isolated joints of the flagellum indistinctly 

 reddish. Front moderately long, tricarinate, the lateral carina; end- 

 ing in tubercles within the eyes. Back of head grey in the middle. 



