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APOGONIA IMPROBA, 0, spec. 
Female: Size and shape of the preceding species, but dark bronze 
and very shiny; the shape and sculpture are the same, but the 
punctures on the elytra are somewhat finer, and the intervals quite 
smooth and plane. 
I have seen only one female example. It is quite possible that 
the male has more characteristic differences. 
Length 94 mm.; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
APOGONIA MASHONA.,, Nl. Spec. 
Testaceous-red, turning to bronze-green, on the elytra ; in shape it 
closely resembles A. curtula and A. improba, but it is at once 
distinguished by the constantly smaller size, and the much deeper 
and coarser punctures on the upper part, and also by the shape of 
the clypeus which is not so sharply diagonally narrowed laterally 
nor so truncate in front in the male, and not at all sinuate there in 
the female ; the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are only 
slightly dilated. 
Leneth 7-74 mm.; width 4-41 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe ; Umtali, Mazée). 
APOGONIA OVATA, Fahr., 
Plate XLVI, fig. 17. 
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 94. 
Ceratogonia kolbet, Kraatz. Deutsch. Entoml. Zeitsch., 1899, p. 141. 
Chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge, club of 
antenne flavescent ; head and prothorax covered with fine, although 
deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in 
width to their own diameter; scutellum finely but not densely 
punctate ; elytra with the humeral angles sharp and slightly pro- 
jecting beyond the rounded base of the prothorax, covered with 
deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and having on each 
elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row 
of punctures, suture plainly raised ; underside coarsely punctate ; 
anterior tibie bi-dentate ; in the male the clypeus is as long as the 
head, strongly aculeate laterally, and the apical part is deeply 
incised, the two angles of the incision being remarkably sharp, the 
three basal joints of all the tarsi are very much dilated, the second 
one especially, and provided underneath with a somewhat flat brush 
of flavescent hairs ; in the female, the clypeus, which is not as long 
