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ting below on the usual transverse ridge ; antennae robust, 

 the three lower joints nifo-piceous, the rest nearly black. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long at the base ; sides 

 obliquely converging and nearly straight from the base to 

 beyond the middle, thence rather more quickly converging to 

 the apex, the latter armed with a short, obtuse, slightly ex- 

 curved tooth ; upper surface coarsely and closely punctured ; 

 lateral border moderately dilated, recurved, its surface concave, 

 rugose. Scutellum trigonate, as broad as long. Elytra deeply, 

 coarsely, and closely punctured, the outer margin only nar- 

 rowly dilated, reflexed ; each elytron with a narrow pitchy- 

 black vitta, which, commencing at the base, runs down the 

 inner portion of the outer disk and terminates about halfway 

 between the middle and the apex. Hinder thigh strongly 

 thickened, hinder tibia very short ; apical joint of hinder tarsus 

 strongly inflated, nigro-piceous. 



(EdionycMs natalensis. 



(E. ovata, postiee paullo ampliata, valde convexa, sordide fulva, 

 minus nitida, subtus nitida, pectore abdomineque piceis, tibiis 

 (basi excepta), tarsis antennisque (his basi exceptis) nigris ; 

 thorace granuloso, subcrebre, evidenter punctate, lateribus fere 

 rectis, a basi ad apicetn convergentibus ; elytris fortiter, sat 

 crebre punctatis, interstitiis minute punctatis. 



Long, 4 lin. 



Hob. Port Natal. 



Head coarsely rugose-punctate ; encarpge transverse-qua- 

 drate, contiguous, bounded above by a deep transverse depres- 

 sion ; carina raised, wedge-shaped, its apex acuminate, its lower 

 extremity terminating on a strongly raised transverse ridge, 

 which extends entirely across the lower portion of the clypeus ; 

 antennse filiform, the three lower joints, together with the basal 

 half of the fourth, fulvous, the rest black. Thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long ; sides nearly straight, obliquely con- 

 verging from base to apex, the anterior angles submucronate ; 

 basal margin very obtusely rounded, sinuate on either side near 

 the outer angle, the latter slightly produced, very acute ; disk 

 granulose, distinctly but not coarsely punctured ; median line 

 with a faint longitudinal groove ; lateral border broad, reflexed, 

 its surface irregular. Scutellum trigonate, smooth, impunc- 

 tate. Elytra broader than the thorax, broadly oblong-ovate, 

 convex, coarsely punctured, the interspaces nitidous, impressed 

 with minute punctures. Hinder femora strongly thickened. 

 Basal joint of hinder tarsus about equal in length to the se- 

 cond ; claw -joint strongly inflated. 



