AND. GENERA QF EL'MOLPIDiE. 2G3 



strougly punctured ; antennfe with the four lower joints slender, 

 subcylindrical, piceous, the rest thickened and compressed, black. 

 Thorax twice as broad at the base as long ; sides obliquely 

 rounded and converging from base to apex, the hinder angles mu- 

 eronate ; basal margin sinuate on either side, the median lobe very 

 slightly produced, thickened, very obtusely rounded ; upper sur- 

 face transversely convex, subcylindrical at the apex, remotely im- 

 pressed with large deep punctures, interspaces shining, impunc- 

 tate ; apical margin with a broad thickened edge. Scutellum 

 shining, impunctate. Elytra much broader than the thorax, about 

 one half longer than wide, subquadrate- ovate, very broadly rounded 

 at the apex ; very convex, faintly excavated below the basilar 

 space, the humeral callus prominent ; regularly punctate-striate, 

 the puncturing much finer towards the apex, nearly obsolete' on the 

 basilar space ; interspaces plane, shining, impunctate. All the 

 thighs (more especially the anterior pair) thickened, ampuUate, 

 armed beneath with a short tooth, the intermediate pair unarmed. 



Grenus Stagetjs, Cliapuis. 



Syagrus rugifrons, n. sp. Elongatus, subcylindricus, obscure cu- 

 preus, nitidus, scutello, capite pedibusque piceis, antennis obscure 

 piceo-fulvis ; capite rude rugoso ; thorace vix latiore quam longiore, 

 lateribus fere parallelis, subcylindrico, crebre'foveolato-punctato ; ely- 

 tris thorace latioribus, oblongis, fortiter punctato-striatis, interspa- 

 tiis costatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Sab. South Africa. 



Head very coarsely rugose-punctate ; front impressed on the 

 mesial line with a faint longitudinal groove ; anterior border of 

 clypeus angulate-emarginate ; jaws black ; antennae slender, the 

 basal joint broadly ovate, the second nearly equal in length to the 

 first, moderately thickened, ovate, the third to the fifth nearly 

 equal in length, each twice as long as the second. Thorax 

 scarcely broader than long ; sides nearly straight and parallel, 

 converging at the apex ; above subcylindrical, closely covered 

 with large round punctures. Scutellum scarcely broader than 

 long at the base, semirotundate, its apex acute. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, oblong, the sides parallel, the apex 

 rounded ; above convex, not excavated below the basilar space, 

 strongly and regularly punctate-striate, the ninth and tenth striaj 

 from the suture abbreviated anteriorly below the humeral callus ; 

 interspaces convex on the anterior half of the iu7aer disk, costate 



