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part is longer and more distinct than the anterior and does 
not reach the apex. The legs and underside are black, in 
parts pitchy; the scutellum is black. While the head and 
thorax scarcely exhibit punctuation, what there is being hidden 
by pubescence, the elytra are deeply, thickly, and evenly 
punctate, the punctures often confluent in short transverse 
rows; their margins are not expanded nor reflexed, but 
extremely finely margined. 
This insect rather remarkably resembles the species described 
here as Hvochomus justitiv, taken at the same time and place, 
viz. Malvern, in June 1897. 
One specimen is all I have seen. 
Cyrtaulis sexpustulata, sp. n. 
Statura et forma C. sellate similis at paullo longior, nigra, brunneo- 
pubescens ; ore, pedibus, thoracis linea utrinque, et elytrorum 
punctis tribus in singulo, duobus ante medium transversim, uno 
ante apicem sitis, sanguineis. 
Long. 4°5 millim. 
Hab. Natal, Frere, Estcourt (Marshall). 
‘lwo specimens of this pretty species, one from each of the 
localities, were sent; they were found on the Acacia horrida 
in November 1892. 
Cyrtaulis tristis, sp. n. 
C. sexpustulate similis et affinis, et exemplo majori statura equalis, 
sordide nigra, breviter pubescens; subtus cum pedibus, capite 
prothoracisque margine antico obscure rufis. 
Long. 4°75 millim. 
fab. Natal, Frere (Marshall). 
The form, size, pubescence, and sculpture of this insect are 
so similar to that of C. sexpustulata, that it is sufficient to 
note the absence of the red spots on the elytra and of the red 
line on the thorax; the entire side, front angles, and margin 
of the thorax are pitchy red, to ‘which colour the general 
dark colour shades in a quite indefinite manner. The under- 
side and legs are of the same obscure dark red colour. 
There being but one example, it is only possible to say 
that this insect appears to represent a different species from 
the preceding. 
