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but much less rugose, and the shape of the antennas is 

 quite different. Probably allied to X. obsolcta, but can 

 hardly be the male of that species. 



85. Xiphiccra granulosa, sp. n. 



Female. Antennie 15-jointed, basal joints red, joints 3-8 black, 

 forming an ensiculus, slightly flattened, but scarcely broader than 

 the rest ; joints 9-11 also black, more distinctly separated ; joint 9 

 shorter than the two following ones ; joints 12-15 reddish, the last 

 cylindrical, and nearly as long as the two preceding ones together ; 

 body brown, thickly granulated with white, and with larger granules 

 scattered on the sides of the thorax and abdomen ; space behind and 

 below the eyes a little greenish ; vertex hardly projecting beyond the 

 lower part of the face ; scutellum of the vertex nearly as broad as 

 long, forming a rectangle in front, not rounded off, and the lateral 

 carinse semicircular behind ; pronotum sharply pointed in front, 

 crest nearly straight, yellowish, not carinated, but strongly bifid 

 at the extremity ; spines of the abdomen large ; hind femora 

 narrowed above and below before the knee, strongly dentated above, 

 and denticulated below ; crest of pronotum with three semivitreous 

 cavities below. 



Hah. TiiANSVAAL : Pretoria {Distant). 

 Allied to X. comprcssa, and possibly the female of that 

 species. 



86. Xiphicerrc hrevis. 



Pamphagus hrevis, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., iii, p. 534, n. 3 

 (1870). 



Hob. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant) ; Natal {type) 

 (Gueinzius). 



87. Xiphicera ohsoleta, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 50 millim. 



Female. Dark brown, nearly black, granulated. Antennre 14- 

 jointed, joints 3-8 moderately broad, and so closely connected that 

 they can hardly be counted ; joints 9 and 10 flattened, but narrower, 

 and joint 9 shorter than 10; the rest cylindrical, 11 and 12 shorter 

 than 13 and 14. Prothorax with the median and all the bordering 

 carinas slightly reddish ; the upper two-thirds of the front more 

 reddish, with traces of three blackish longitudinal lines in front, 

 below the crest. Crest moderately arched, and somewhat sloping 



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