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punctures are decidedly smaller, with the rows more approximate. 

 Length 2 lines. 



Hkciiodks [Colydiidac]. 

 Erichson, Naturg. der Ins. Dcutsclil. iii. p. 255. 



llechodes verrucosus. 



li. modice convexus, tuscus j olytris antice subgibbosis, tuberculis ob- 

 longis disco instructis. 



Hah. Natal. 



Moderately convex, dark brown, more or less clouded with a lighter 

 shade, or even inclining to grey; head with a line of foiu* tubercles 

 between the eyes, the antennary orbit large, a semicircular impression 

 above the epistome ; mentum large, quadrate ; labium transverse, entire, 

 ciliated in front; prothorax very transverse, wider than the. elytra, 

 the sides strongly dilated and margined with a double series of equal 

 semfoi-m tubercles, and deeply sinuated in front for the reception of the 

 head, the disc with a row of five tubercles on each side the central 

 line, the anterior pair accompanied by two others placed on the edge of 

 the prothorax ; scutellum small, quadrate ; elytra seriato-puuctate, 

 slightly gibbous at the base, so as to be above the line of the prothorax, 

 a row of small tubercles along the side, above this another of three 

 oblong tubercles, followed by a third row which is incomplete in the 

 middle, and lastly close to the suture is a line of smaller tubercles run- 

 ning, with a slight interruption posteriorly, to the apex, — the sides less 

 strongly dilated than in the prothorax, but edged with a double row of 

 seiTiform tubercles of the same size (in some specimens there is a lighter 

 shade posteriorly, forming a band-like mark) ; antennae, palpi, and eyes 

 feiTuginous, with a paler pubescence ; body beneath dark bro\NTi, 

 covered with small tubercles. Leno-th 3 lines. 



Rechodes fallax. 



R. fere convexus, fuscescens ; elytris antice subdepressis, tuberculis ob- 

 longis instructis. ^ 



Hub. Natal. 



Closely allied to the former, but is smaller, less convex, the elytra 

 nan'ower, and their base being depressed, they are on the same line 

 with the prothorax ; the disposition of the tubercles is almost precisely 

 the same, except perhaps that they may be a trifle less marked ; the 

 colour in both species is somewhat variable. Length 2^ lines. 



Recliodes shjnatus. 



R. subdepressus, fuscus ; prothoracis lateribus, elytrorumque macula 



magna albescentibus. 

 Hub. Natal. 



