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Oblong, depressed, piceous, somewhat shining, and feebly cinereo-pubescent. Head 
shorter than broad, nigro-piceous, faintly and thickly punctate, with the labrum and 
palpi rufo-ferruginous. Antennze short, rufo-piceous, sparingly pubescent, with the club 
rounded and fuscous. Thorax a half shorter than its breadth, nigro-piceous, feebly griseo- 
pubescent, somewhat shining, above somewhat convex, faintly variolosely punctate, the 
punctures very shallow large pits, from the centre of which the hairs spring; in front 
lightly emarginate ; anterior angles subobtuse; sides from the apex to the base with the 
margins rather broadly reflexed, obscurely ferruginous, straight except towards the apex, 
with the posterior angles right angles and not pointing backwards. Scutellum short, 
broad, nigro-piceous, faintly and closely punctate, slightly pubescent, with the apex sub- 
truncate. Elytra scarcely a half longer than the thorax, and not broader than its base, 
nigro-piceous, somewhat convex, variolosely punctate (not very deeply) in rows in the 
same way as the thorax, the interstices narrow, slightly keeled; the sides reflexed and 
margined, straight; truncate at the apex, with the exterior apical angles rounded; the 
shoulders almost rectangular, not prominent. Abdomen above punctate and rather 
thickly pubescent; the fimbriz well marked, widest behind, except on the pygidium, 
and with a tubercle in the anterior corner, close to the stigmatic depression, which is 
very deep. Underside nigro-piceous, faintly and closely punctate. Legs obsoletely 
punctulated, sparingly pubescent; thighs piceous; tibi; and tarsi rufo-piceous. 
Nearly allied to B. depressus. The peculiar variolose punctuation of this insect serves 
to distinguish it from that species, as well as from any others which are likely to be con- 
founded with it. 
From the neighbourhood of the river Limpopo, in South-east Africa. 
11. BRACHYPEPLUS PARALLELUS. 
Elongatus; angustus, niger, subopacus, fortiter punctatus; prothorace elongato, Fig. 55. 
lateribus fortiter reflexis, subparallelis, postice sinuatis; elytris fortiter = 
punctato-striatis ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineo-piceis. Long. 2} lin., 
lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Natalia. 
Narrower and more elongate than B. depressus. Antenne ferrugineo-piceous. Head 
finely but very thickly rugosely punctate, with two flat depressions in front. Thorax 
somewhat narrower than the elytra, deeply, distinctly, and thickly punctate, somewhat 
longitudinally convex; oblong, with the sides somewhat sinuate and the margins rather 
deeply reflexed; anterior angles declinate, obtusely rounded; apex emarginate, emargi- 
nation bisinuate; posterior angles nearly right angles; base bisinuate. Elytra about a 
half longer than the thorax, deeply punctate-striate, oblong and parallel, without the 
depressions on the surface which occur in B. depressus, truncate at the apex, with the 
exterior angles rounded. Abdomen finely punctate and pubescent; fimbrize with the 
inner margin slightly curved; the stigmatic depression is not so marked as in B. Caffer, 
and the tubercle within it is absent, or nearly so. Legs ferrugineo-piceous. 
From Natal. 
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