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» differentiation of the prothoracic contours between the 
sexes, which in ¢rapezicollis are exactly similar. 
The following are dimensions of a female of obliquatus 
and a female of trapezicollis for comparison :— 
obliquatus: length 124 mm.; width at base of prothorax 
44 mm. ; width of elytra 54 mm. ; length 7? mm. 
trapezicollis *; length 103 mm.; width at base of pro- 
thorax 3} mm. ; width of elytra 3? mm. 
Described from four examples—a pair from Malvern, 
dated October 1897 and September 1899 respectively, and 
another pair from Somkeli, dated December 1907. ‘The 
only differences in these four specimens is that the Zululand 
pair are a little more deeply punctated about heads, pro- 
thoraces, and beneath. 
Hab, Malvern, Natal; Somkeli, Zululand. 
CaLLIsTINI. 
Under the designation Callistomimus caffer, Boh. (vide 
page 525, vol. vii. Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc.), Dr. Péringuey 
describes a species (evidently hitherto unrecorded), which 
differs widely from Boheman’s description of his insect 
_under that name (vide page 128, Insecta Caffrariv). Périn- 
guey’s description of this species, for which I propose the 
name diversus, shows it to be much nearer akin to sev- 
pustulatus, Boh., than to the species to which he has assigned 
it. The localities given for this species by its author are 
Estcourt, Natal, and Salisbury, Rhodesia. I have two 
examples (male and female) from Estcourt which agree 
well, allowing for some omissions, with Péringuey’s (not 
Boheman’s) description of C. caffer, and I have little doubt 
that these are the species referred to by him. From 
Plumtree, Rhodesia, I have four examples, which in all 
details agree faithfully with Boheman’s description of his 
C. cajfer, and these both in shape and size differ materially 
from the Estcourt species. 
Dr. Péringuey, in his description of his C. caffer = 
C. diversus, mihi, omits any reference to the shape of the 
prothorax, and there are also other discrepancies and 
omissions. The following is a fuller description of this 
species :— 
Callistomimus diversus, sp. n., caffer, Pér. (nec Boh.). 
Length (male) 55 mm., (female) 5 mm. ; width 23-3 mm. 
* A female example from Piet Retief, Transvaal, loaned to me by 
Dr. Brauns is quite as big as my examples of obliquatus—length 124 mm. ; 
width at base of prothorax 44 mm, ; width of elytra 5 mm., length 8 mm. 
