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deepest notch. Lower carina with a double row of crowded and 

 irregular teeth and tubercles, and with a very large tubercle about 

 the middle. Internal area of the hind femora nearly smooth. Hind 

 tibias with nine spines in the outer carina. 



Hob. Transvaal : Pretoria (Distant), Barberton (Ren- 

 dall) ; Delagoa Bay {H. A. Sxtmcer). 



Described from three female specimens. This species 

 is something like X. cinerascens ; but I can find no species 

 described which resembles it in its rugosity, and in the 

 peculiar structure of the hind femora. 



81. Xiphicera paupercula, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 43 millim. 



Female. Dark reddish-brown ; legs paler ; head, thorax and hind 

 legs thickly granulated with white ; vertex only slightly projecting 

 beyond the lower part of the face ; scutellum of the vertex rounded 

 off in front, nearly horizontal, coarsely and finely granulated, the 

 lateral carinse converging behind. Antennte short and broad, 14- 

 jointed, rather flattened, joints 3-8 flattened, closely connected, pairs 

 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 successively narrower, but 9 and 11 shorter 

 than 10 and 12, and 13 narrower but a little longer than 12 ; terminal 

 joint twice as long as broad ; conical. Thorax compressed, crest 

 regularly arched, with three deep concavities beneath it ; hinder part 

 of crest denticulated, with the extremity bifid. Abdomen very rugose, 

 median teeth large, and a row of rather large callosities on each side 

 as well. Hind femora very broad, extremity truncated, preceded 

 by a large concavity beneath. Hind femora strongly dentated above, 

 and irregularly denticulated below, and with nine spines on the outer 

 carina. 



Hal. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant). 



This insect seems to combine the characters of X. 

 distanti and X. rugosipes, but the scutellum of the vertex 

 is more rounded in front, and the antennse differ much. 

 It is, however, not quite impossible that it may be an 

 immature form of X. rugosipes. 



82. Xiphicera distanti. 



Xiphocera distanti, Saussure ; Dist., Nat. Trausv., p. 261, pi. 

 iv, fig. 1 (1892). 



