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on each side being dull, but becoming shiny and somewhat 
swollen towards the eyes, the whole being more or less 
variolous. Prothoraz oblong, anteriorly dull and posteriorly 
shiny, the central longitudinal line commencing near the 
base and extending more or less to the centre, irregularly 
variolous and punctured. Llytra the same breadth as and 
three-fourths longer than the prothorax ; striate-punctate, 
the sutural stria depressed and deeply punctured, the inter- 
stices furnished with fine uniseriate punctures, becoming 
rugose and hairy towards the apex ; the base of the third and 
fifth interstices elevated, broadened, and transversely carinate, 
the apical depression short, excavate on each side of the suture, 
but not extending to the lateral margins. Abdomen arched, 
except the fifth segment, which is concave, with a very slight 
central elevation, and with the apical edge raised so as to 
form two lateral processes, one on each side of the centre, 
which are apically narrowed and exscinded ; the metatarsal 
femoral cavity is minutely denticulate. 
Length 5°3-5°7 mm, ; breadth 1°3 mm. 
PorTUGUESE EAST AFRICA: Xinavane (C. B. Harden- 
berg). 
The lateral depression close to the upper portion of the 
eyes is almost obsolete in some specimens, and the curvature 
of its upper edge varies considerably ; the frontal hairs are 
frequently almost worn away. Very similar to C. crinitus, 
Chap., but with different elytral sculpture etc. in the male 
and distinct abdominal characters etc. in the feniale. 
Crossotarsus opifex, sp. Nn. 
$ . Head and prothorax reddish brown ; elytra dull yellow, 
darker towards the apex. Font flat, shagreened surface 
with large shallow punctures on the upper two-thirds, central 
longitudinal depression short ; coarsely punctured, with a 
small tuft of yellow hair over the mouth; a longitudinal 
central carina on the vertex, which is sharply defined ante- 
riorly and closely covered with oblong, shallow, umbilical 
punctures. Prothoraw oblong, dull anteriorly, with a trans- 
verse row of irregularly placed shallow depressions, the rest 
of the surface shiny, irregularly and sparsely punctured, with 
a longitudinal central groove extending about one-third from 
the base, and furnished on each side with an irregular double 
row of punctures. lytra of equal breadth and twice as 
long as the prothorax, striate-punctate, the sutural  stria 
having the largest and deepest punctures, the interstices flat, 
with obscure and irregular punctures ; the first and third 
