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dimidiate and parallel to the suture, last three are apical, 

 along the apical margin there is a rather broad band of points 

 a little more thickly set than those of the thorax ; the pro- 

 pygidium is pointed like the elytral border, but the punctua- 

 tion of the pygidium is finer and seen chiefly at the base, at 

 the apex the points are very fine and sparse ; the prosternum, 

 lobe transverse and punctured, keel smooth, bistriate, stria} 

 very slightly wider apart at the base, nearly parallel along 

 their course ; the mesosternum obtusely acuminate anteriorly, 

 marginal stria following in the middle the course of the 

 outline, it is well-marked and complete, surface and that of 

 the metasternum smooth ; the anterior tibia? 5-dentate and 

 the interval between the three basal and the two apical is the 

 widest ; legs obscure brown or pitchy. 



The thoracic marginal stria is peculiar in this species, and 

 so is the lateral one, in being away from the edge. The inner 

 humeral stria is formed like one of the short elytral stria? 

 in Hololepta. 



Bab. 8. Africa. Found at Verulam (8162) and Umgeni 

 (8173), Natal, by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall under the bark of 

 decaying Euphorbia. 



Homalodes fortunatus, sp. n. 



Ovatus, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus ; fronte impressa, stria In- 

 tegra, in medio retrorsum acuminata utrinque sinuata ; elytris 

 stria humerali externa integra, 1-2 dorsalibus integris, 3 di- 

 midiata, postice punctata ; mesosterno stria integra ; pygidio 

 dense punctate 



L. 7 mill. 



Oval, little convex, black, shining; the head, surface with 

 an extremely fine punctuation, frontal stria complete, ante- 

 riorly sinuous on either side, acuminate in the middle, on 

 either side of and behind the acumination the forehead is 

 impressed and the impressions are clearly punctate ; the 

 thorax laterally with a band of punctures, points clearest 

 behind the anterior angles, less clear before the hinder angles, 

 but continuing faintly a little along the base, marginal stria 

 complete and markedly sinuous behind the eyes, antescutellar 

 fovea small but clear; the elytra, stria?, external humeral 

 complete, internal fine and oblique at the base, punctiform in 

 the middle, and continuing is shortened before the apex, 1-2 

 dorsal nearly complete and finely crenulate apically, 3 fine 

 and crenulate at the base, but behind the middle punctiform, 

 on either side of the suture, behind the middle, is a row 

 of fine punctures which represent apical sutural striae; the 



