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punctate ; elytra sculptured like the thorax, clothed with very fine 

 grey pubescence. 



Length 3 millim. 



Head minutely transversely granulate and sparingly punctured ; 

 frontal tubercles strongly marked, transverse; clypeus with an 

 acutely raised central ridge ; antennae long and slender, the third 

 joint twice the length of the second, very slightly shorter than 

 the fourth joint: thorax one-half broader than long, the sides 

 straight, the posterior margin rounded, the disc rather flat, finely 

 rugosely punctured, sparingly pubescent ; elytra wider at the base 

 than the thorax, extremely closely rugose-punctate, of a rather 

 finer texture than the thorax and clothed with short, silky, grey 

 pubescence ; posterior femora strongly iucrassate, black as well as 

 the under surface and the legs. 



Hub. Dunbrody, Cape Colony {Rev. J. VNeil). 



This species is intermediate in size between H. afrkanus Jac. 

 and H. natalensis just described ; it differs from both in the entirely 

 black antennas and legs, also in the sculpturing of the thorax and 

 that of the elytra, which is much more marked and rugose. I 

 received two specimens from the Rev. J. O'JNeil. 



Chirodica puncticollis, sp. n. 



Black, the head, basal joints of antennas, and the thorax and legs 

 fulvous ; elytra dark blue, like the thorax, very finely and closely 

 punctured and minutely granulate; posterior femora bluish 

 black. 



Length 4 millim. 



Of elongate parallel shape, the head broad, impunctate, reddish 

 fulvous, the frontal elevations broadly trigonate, divided by a 

 narrow groove : clypeus strongly thickened, narrowly transverse ; 

 antennas robust, extending slightly below the middle of the elytra, 

 black, the lower two or three joints fulvous, basal joint curved and 

 thickened at the apex, second joint short, the third one-half longer, 

 the following more elongate and somewhat dilated ; thorax sub- 

 quadrate, one-half broader than long, all the margins nearly straight, 

 the anterior angles slightly obliquely thickened, the surface some- 

 what depressed, minutely granulate and finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; scutellum broad, black ; elytra dark blue, sculptured like 

 the thorax ; breast and abdomen black ; legs robust, the anterior 

 four fulvous, the posterior ones more or less piceous ; posterior 

 tibias with a strong spur, carinate, anterior tibise unarmed ; the 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following joints 

 together; prosternum extremely narrow, the anterior coxal cavities 

 open. 



Eab. Salisbury, Mashonaland (G. Marshall). 



The genus Chirodica is of rather peculiar shape on account of 



the flattened and nearly quadrate thorax ; the antennas seem to 



ary rather in structure, as they are nearly moniliform and short 



in 0. chalcoptera Germ., but much more elongate in the other 



species described by Baly. The present insect may be known from 



