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and closely punctate, and showing no traces of striz or costules 
except the juxta-sutural stria; pygidium vertical, somewhat deeply 
and very closely punctate, sub-coriaceous. 
Female unknown. 
Length 21-22 mm.; width 11-12 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna). 
I am not quite satisfied that this insect is the M. ciliata of Herbst, 
and I only give it on Burmeister’s authority. The figure given by 
Herbst is more like M. brachiata, but this author’s description 
is almost useless. There is very little doubt, however, that it is 
the M. maritima of Castelnau. 
ALGOSTETHA BRACHIATA, Nn. spec. 
Male: Black, the elytra chestnut-red ; clypeus straight laterally, 
truncate in front but with the outer angles rounded, half as 
long as broad, scrobiculate, suture somewhat arcuate, frontal 
part scrobiculate but not as broadly as on the clypeus; club 
of antenne extremely long, strongly curved; prothorax twice as 
broad as long, strongly slanting laterally from the apical part 
for one-third of the length, and slightly thence to the basal 
angle which is sharp, marginate ali round, very slightly convex, and 
having a somewhat deep longitudinal impression along the outer 
margin, covered with nearly contiguous, round, deep punctures, with 
the intervals somewhat raised in the posterior part, and a median 
longitudinal smooth line, slightly raised, and obliterated at both 
ends, the margins bear traces of a band of appressed, flavescent 
hairs, denser and thicker laterally ; scutellum ogival, but somewhat 
rounded at the tip, closely foveolato-punctate and very densely 
pubescent along the base; elytra slightly broader than the basal 
part of the prothorax, but with the basal angles very broadly 
rounded, and the humeral eallus very distinct, a little ampliated 
at a short distance from the shoulder, and nearly of the same width 
thence to the rounded posterior part, covered with moderately broad, 
irregularly yet closely set punctures the intervals of which are 
somewhat coriaceous, especially laterally, and having in addition 
to the plain sutural stria two geminate ones on the disk, and an 
elongated impression under the humeral callus, each puncture 
bears a very minute hair almost always obliterated, but less so 
along the margins and the suture, the outer margin has a row 
of equi-distant somewhat stiff bristly hairs ; pygidium very closely 
punctured, the sculpture, however, is hidden by a coating of dense, 
flavescent appressed hairs; the abdomen has a less dense coating 
