the S". African Species of Dinomotopus, (Cr. 34,] 



Kltveii examples, one only of wliicli is S- 'i'»c ? lias 

 testaceous antenn:e, as in the type (?) of (,\ alhilaleris, Va., 

 fioni the Cape; l)ut the latter is deserihed as having testa- 

 ceous legs and the disc of the prolhorax l)laek, and the 

 j)resent insect cannot he identified with it. The stiuelnre of 

 the head in ^ is peculiar, approaching that of C. buccalor, 

 as deserihed hy Abeille de I'errin. 



G. Co/ntes nasuttis, fi\). n. (Pl.V. fig. 29, head, ^ .) 



S . I'^xtreniely like ( '.fruntulis and very similarly coloured, 

 but differing as follows : — Antennie a little stouter, black, 

 except tho two apical joints and tlie basal one beneath, the 

 latter more curved; joint 4 of maxillary palpi extrcmelv 

 large, broad, convex, scaphiform, almost smooth, 3 strongly- 

 transverse and closely ap])lied to 4; head with the trian- 

 gular frontal plate much more prominent, longer, nar- 

 rower behind, and forming a blunt horn anteriorlv, the 

 black basal space angulate in the middle; prothorax a little 

 more transverse, the black patch on the anterior portion of 

 the disc transverse, tlie base whitish. 



Length 2h mm. 



Huh. S. Afkica, Bulawayo {Dr. Marshall: xii. 1903). 



One male, found with the preceding, of which it was at 

 fir>t suj)posed to be a varietal form, 



7. Volutes triyoiius, sp. n. (PI. VI. fig. 30, head, J .) 



r^ . Moderately elongate, finely cinereo-pubescent, shining ; 

 bluish-black, the head with a sharply -defined, triangular, 

 w hitish patch in front extending npwards to near the vertex, 

 the labrum and palpi, the antennal joints l-l (the inner 

 surface of 1 and a small spot on 4 excepted), the prothorax 

 (a broad patch down the middle, extending to near the base, 

 excepted), anterior and intermediate legs, and jjostcrior 

 tarsi, testaceous or rnfo-tcstaceous ; the elytra bluish-green, 

 with a rather broad, elongate, whitish patch at the sides 

 below the base. Head rather broad, with a deep, shining, 

 oblique sulcus on each side near the eyes, the vertex depressed 

 in the middle, the triangular whitish space in front of it 

 flattened and slightly raised ; antennae somewhat thickened, 

 joint 1 elongate, compressed, subconical ; joints 3 and 4 of 

 maxillary palpi enormously developed, 4 scaphiform. Pro- 

 thorax transverse, convex. Klytra rather strongly, closely 

 punctured. Anterior tarsi 4-jointed. 



? . Head bluish-black, immaculate ; anteinne a little 



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