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middle, constricted near tlie apex, the constriction continued 

 obliquely and shallowly towards the disk ; the basal margin 

 broadly arcuate, the apical truncate ; the disk flat in the 

 middle and gently sloping at the sides, with closis shallow 

 punctures almost hidden by the scaling and a few very short, 

 stout, subrecumbent setse ; the apical area broadly elevated 

 and very convex longitudinally. Elytra oblong ovate, much 

 flattened, parallel-sided for the greater part of their length, 

 bluntly acuminate behind, slightly dehiscent at the apex, 

 and with the base deeply and jointly sinuate ; strise 1~6 

 broad and shallow, containing large close punctures and 

 running in pairs, intervals 3 and 5 being slightly more 

 raised than the others, though interval 1 is still more 

 strongly raised on the declivity only and interval 9 termi- 

 nates in a transverse callus just above the apex ; strise 1 and 

 2 unite at the base in a deep fovea, which is narrowly bounded 

 in front by the basal margin ; striae 3 and 4 curve inwards 

 at the base into a similar fovea, which, however, breaks 

 through the basal margin ; 5 and 6 do not reach the base, 7 

 and 8 are scarcely distinguishable at all, and 9 and 10 are 

 shallow in the apical half and obsolete in the basal third; 

 the alternate intervals with very short, thick, black, sub- 

 recumbent setae. Legs with dense pale vermiculate scaling, 

 the dorsal edge of the tibise (except the apical fourth) and 

 the basal half of the hind femora being brown. 



Length 3*5-4-3 mm., breadth 1*6-2 mm. 



South Africa : without exact locality, from nest of social 

 weaver- bird {Philetcerus socius). 



Described from five specimens. The only external sexual 

 difference appears to be the slighter deeper ventral impression 

 in the ^ , 



Subfamily Hyfjehinje. 

 Chloropholus africanuSy sp. n. (PL V. fig. 11.) 



^ ? . Integument black, with dense brown scaling and 

 markings of pale fawn and black, the pale scales having a 

 slight metallic reflection ; the head pale fawn ; the pro- 

 notum brown, with two indefinite curved pale stripes, which 

 are broadest towards the base and divide the dorsum into 

 three parts, of which the middle one is somewhat broader 

 and darker than either of the others ; the scutellum pale 

 fawn ; the elytra brown, with two very irregular broken 

 bands formed of pale fawn spots, one running from behind 

 the shoulder to the middle of the suture, the other be- 

 hind the middle, and sometimes almost connected together 

 by pale spots on intervals 5 or 6 ; the lateral margin 



