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with testaceous speckles. Legs long; femora unarmed; tibiae and tarsi 

 piceous; fore tibiae with six spines on each side; middle tibia? with rather 

 fewer spines; hind tibiae with some spines in three rows. Length of the 

 body 1 1 lines. 



o, b. South Africa. From Dr. Dohrn's collection. 



19. HETRODES CEASSIPES. 



Mas. Fulvns, crassus ; caput punclatum, unispinosum ; antenna nigrcs^ 

 basi fulvcB ; prolhorax antice bispinosus cornubus duobus trispinosis, 

 postice viginti spinosus, lateribus quadrispinosis ; abdomen piceum ; 

 pedes crassi^ nigro vittati, tibiis anticis trispinosis, tibiis qualuor 

 posterionbus quadrispinosis. 



Male. Tawny, very stout. Head punctured, with a short obliquely 

 ascending spine beiweeu the eyes. Antennae black, tawny at the base. 

 Prothorax rugose, abruptly declining on each side ; four transverse furrows, 

 of which the hinder one is deeper than the others; fore border with two 

 very short spines and with two lateral very short horns, each armed with 

 three short black-tipped spines; four spines on each side; hind border 

 rounded, slightly reflexed, with twenty black-tipped spines, the spines on 

 each side much longer than those in the middle. Abdomen piceous above. 

 Legs thick ; femora and tibiae striped with black ; femora unarmed; fore 

 tibia? with three small black-tipped spines beneath ; four posterior tibia? with 

 four spines beneath; tarsi black beneath. Length of the body 19 lines. 



a. South Africa. From Mr. Bartlett's collection. 



Group 4. 



20. HETRODES PALLIDUS. 



Mas. Pallide luleus, subtilissime punctatus ; palpi apice nigri ; antenna 

 picece, basi pallide lutece ; prothorax antice quadrispinosus, postice 

 sexspinosus ; pedes longi,femoribus transverse sulcalis, tibiis spinosis. 



Female. Pale luteous. Head and prothorax very finely punctured. 

 Palpi and mandibles with black tips. Eyes reddish. Antennas piceous, 

 pale luteous towards the base, more than twice the length of the body. 

 Proihorax wilh a middle furrow and with black-tipped spines; fore part 

 with two spines on each side ; hind part with two spines on each side and 

 with two on the hind border, which is elevated. Legs long; femora and 

 tibiae keeled ; femora transversely and slightly furrowed ; four anterior 

 tibia? with six spines beneath ; hind tibia? with several spines in three rows. 

 Length of the body 14 lines, 

 a. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 



Genus 29. LESINA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum, subtilissime punctatum. Caput spina antica 

 subascendeute armatum ; vertex subreticulalus ; frons erecta. Prothorax 

 transverse bisulcatus, antice subtuberculatus, lateribus extensis alienuatis 

 spiuosis, margiue postico ascendente spinoso. Pedes spinosi, sat robusti. 



