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with very fine longitudinal lines; femora thickened, aeneous, tibiie 

 and tarsi fulvous, the posterior ones darker, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi nearly as long as the following two joints together, 

 the anterior tarsi broader and shorter. 



Hob. Frere, Natal, also Mooi Eiyer ((?. Marshall), obtained by 

 sweeping. 



Diifering from P. natalensis Jac. in the much more ovately 

 rounded shape, the very strongly transverse thorax, and the 

 entirely different punctuation of the upper surface, also in the 

 shorter legs. 



PsEUDEDUSiA, gen. nov. 



Body subcylindrical, glabrous; antennse filiform, widely separated ; 

 thorax transversely subcylindrical ; elytra finely transversely rugose 

 and irregularly punctured ; legs slender, anterior femora strongly 

 widened into a tooth ; tibise mucronate, not emarginate, claws 

 appendiculate ; presternum longer than broad, convex, its apex 

 truncate ; the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum very 

 slightly convex. 



The exact position for this Euraolpid is not easy to find, since 

 the shape of the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum is not 

 well defined, as is frequently the case in the present group, leaving 

 it often a matter of doubt to which section, according to our 

 present classification, the insects should be referred. Tn the present 

 case the shght convexitv of this margin places the species in the 

 second division of the Eumolpidse, and near Argoa Lefev. {Argolis 

 Chap.), which has likewise the anterior femora dilated into a tooth ; 

 there is also the same dilatation of the anterior tibise in the present 

 species, although not to the same extent as in Argoa ; from that 

 genus the shape of the antennae, that of the thorax, and other 

 details separate Pseudeclusia. 



PsEtJDEDUSIA rtTLVIPES, Sp. nOV. 



Below obscure piceous, above metallic green or aeneous, antennae 

 and legs fulvous, thorax finely and subremotely punctured, elytra 

 strongly punctate and transversely rugose. 



Length 5 miliim. 



Head broad, remotely and finely punctured, metallic green with 

 a cupreous tint, longitudinally depressed at the middle ; clypeus 

 not separated from the face, its anterior edge nearly straight, more 

 strongly punctured than the head ; labrum transverse, fulvous ; 

 mandibles robust, fulvous, the apex black, palpi slender, fulvous ; 

 antennse very widely separated, slender, extending beyond the 

 middle of the elytra, fulvous, the first joint thickened, slightly 

 curved and rather short, the second joint thin, one-third shorter 

 than the third, the terminal five joints shorter and very slightly 

 thickened; thorax subquadrately transverse, of equal width, the 

 sides nearly straight, the angles acute but not produced, the 

 surface subcylindrical, metalhc greenish-seneous, finely and sub- 

 remotely punctured ; scutellum ovate ; elytra subcylindrical more 



