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thickened and elongate, the second sliort, raoniliform, the 

 following joints elongate, nearly equal in length; thorax 

 transverse, the sides narrowed near the base, widened ante- 

 riorly, the angles acute, the surface deeply transversely 

 sulcate, minutely granulate, dark greenish, with a few punc- 

 tures near the anterior angles ; scutellum broad, blackish ; 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, very finely punc- 

 tured, flavous ; a sutural and lateral narrow band, not ex- 

 tending to the apex, dark green, their epipleuree continued to 

 the apex : underside black, shining ; legs fulvous, the apex 

 of the tibise and the tarsi fuscous ; tibiae unarmed, the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following joints 

 together ; claws appendiculate ; the anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



Hah. Barberton, Pretoria, 



This species, which is the second representative in Africa of 

 the genus, with which it seems to agree in every respect, bears 

 a very strong resemblance in shape and coloration to the genus 

 SardoideSj Jac. (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895), for which it 

 might be easily mistaken, as the only difference of importance 

 seems to be the state of the anterior coxal cavities, which in 

 the present insect are closed, but open in Sardoides ; the male 

 diff'ers besides this in the deeply excavate lower portion of 

 the head, frequently found in u^nidea, while the antennae 

 show minor differences in structure and colour ; the female 

 has a simple head and less thickened antennas. The variety 

 or aberration, of which many more specimens were obtained 

 than of the form which I look upon as typical, at first sight 

 seems to represent another species ; in this variety the lower 

 portion of the head, the greater number of the lower joints of 

 the antennas, the thorax, elytra, and legs are entirely flavous, 

 but in a single specimen the elytra have the sutural and 

 lateral stripes, thus showing its identity w^ith the type, with 

 which it has otherwise all structural details in common as 

 well as the locality. 



Agelacida, gen. nov. 



Elongate ; antennae filiform ; thorax transverse, without 

 depressions ; elytra irregularly punctured, their cpipleurae 

 broad anteriorly, disappearing below the middle ; tibite un- 

 armed, not channelled, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as 

 long as the following two joints together, claws appendicu- 

 late; prosternum extremely narrow and convex between the 

 coxEe, the anterior cavities closed. 



On account of the want of the clytral epipleurje below tlie 

 middle and the closed anterior coxal cavities, this genus will 



