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withiu the lateral border, except in the scutellar area there 

 are large punctures along the basal edge, scutellar spot very 

 small ; the elytra, outer humeral stria apical and dimidiate, 

 inner basal, oblique anteriorly and very close to the first 

 dorsal stria, posteriorly it gradually becomes finer and dis- 

 appears before the middle, 1—4 entire, first three deepest at 

 their bases, 5 dimidiate, sutural abbreviated before the base, 

 the fourth turns slightly inwards near the base, all tiie strige are 

 a little crenulate, apical border with a tew ocellate punctures, 

 apical rim brownish ; the propygidium rather closely punc- 

 tured, punctures ocellate, with fine points on the interstices ; 

 the pygidium similarly punctured at the base, points gradually 

 evanescent to the apex, which is smooth; the prosternura, ante- 

 rior lobe very minutely strigose and punctured like the head, 

 keel bistriate, strige cariniform, joining indistinctly in front, 

 nearly parallel at the sides, widening out behind the coxaj ; the 

 mesosternum sinuous on either side anteriorly, stria complete, 

 feebly sinuous in the middle and not following the outline of 

 the segment at the sides, surface and that of metasternum 

 with a very fine sparse punctuation; the anterior tibiae 

 5-dentate, two centre teeth set together. 



Hub. Umgeni (8272), Natal {Marshall). Under bark of 

 decaying Euphorbia. 



Pachycrcerus verulamti\ sp. n. 



Oblongus, parum convexus, niger, nitidus ; fronte stria Integra ; 

 pronoto stria marginali abbi'eviata, laterali Integra basi sinuata, 

 antice interrupta ; elytris striis 1-3 integris, 4brevi, 5 brevissima, 

 suturali dimidiata, margins apicah punctato. 



L. 3| mill. 



Oblong, rather convex, black and shining, the head feebly 

 convex between the eyes and very feebly impressed behind 

 the stria, stria complete and rather fine, almost straight ante- 

 riorly, punctuation not close, and like that of the thorax 

 consists of fairly large points and fine ones intermixed ; the 

 thorax, marginal stria very fine and existing only from the 

 anterior angle to a point before the middle, lateral stria turns 

 inwards at basal angle and is widely sinuous at the sides, 

 leaving a fairly wide margin, and becomes deeper from the 

 middle to the anterior angle, and then passes along the anterior 

 edge until it ends beyond the eye, the scutellar spot is a very 

 fine point ; the elytra, outer humeral wanting, inner humeral 

 short at the base and somewhat oblique, with an appendage 

 about its own length before the apex, 1-3 entire, 4 about one 

 third of the elytral length, 5 half length of fourth, sutural 



