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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  shagreened, 
  but 
  more 
  regularly 
  punctate 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  of 
  the 
  normal 
  shape, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  fringe 
  of 
  long, 
  not 
  closely 
  

   set 
  hairs, 
  it 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  round 
  punctures, 
  and 
  

   has 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  a 
  very 
  short, 
  median 
  impressed 
  longitudinal 
  line 
  

   which 
  is 
  often 
  obliterated 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  moderately 
  

   closely 
  set 
  punctures, 
  and 
  having 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  a 
  distinct 
  longitudinal 
  

   impressed 
  line; 
  elytra 
  deeply 
  punctato-striate 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  and 
  with 
  

   the 
  intervals 
  plainly 
  costate, 
  the 
  punctures 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  one 
  are 
  very 
  

   coarse 
  and 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  very 
  closely 
  aciculate 
  and 
  

   is 
  plainly 
  fringed 
  with 
  somewhat 
  long 
  hairs 
  all 
  round, 
  including 
  the 
  

   basal 
  part 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  but 
  the 
  basal 
  fringe 
  is 
  very 
  short 
  and 
  not 
  

   dense 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  inner 
  claw 
  

   of 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  tarsi 
  cleft 
  ; 
  pectus 
  densely 
  hairy 
  in 
  

   the 
  male, 
  less 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  

  

  Length 
  13|~15 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Natal 
  (Durban, 
  Newcastle), 
  Transvaal 
  (Rustenburg). 
  

  

  In 
  two 
  female 
  examples 
  from 
  Rustenburg, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  the 
  

   whole 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  fuscous.* 
  

  

  Anomala 
  phthysica, 
  n. 
  spec, 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  40. 
  

  

  Testaceous, 
  with 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  slightly 
  infuscate, 
  

   and 
  having 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  a 
  triangular 
  black 
  patch 
  extending 
  on 
  the 
  

   base 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  fifth 
  stria 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  tapering 
  into 
  a 
  sutural 
  

   border 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  piceous 
  brown 
  in 
  some 
  

   examples 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  nearly 
  parabolic, 
  very 
  closely 
  and 
  deeply 
  

   punctured; 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  equally 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  

   but 
  the 
  punctures 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  are 
  regular 
  and 
  not 
  so 
  

   closely 
  set 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  is 
  only 
  moderately 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  normally 
  shaped, 
  not 
  fringed 
  laterally 
  with 
  hairs, 
  indistinctly 
  

   aciculate, 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  impressed 
  median 
  line 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  in- 
  

   distinctly 
  aciculate 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  deep, 
  somewhat 
  regular 
  series 
  of 
  

   punctures, 
  the 
  intervals 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  very 
  plainly 
  costate 
  ; 
  the 
  juxta- 
  

   sutural 
  interval, 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  filled 
  with 
  numerous 
  irregular 
  

   punctures, 
  is 
  distinctly 
  costate, 
  and 
  the 
  irregular 
  punctures 
  are 
  

   restricted 
  to 
  the 
  basal 
  part 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  very 
  closely 
  punctate 
  ; 
  pectus 
  

   very 
  little 
  villose 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  inner 
  claw 
  of 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  tarsi 
  not 
  broad, 
  and 
  cleft 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

   Female 
  unknown 
  to 
  me. 
  

  

  Length 
  12-13 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6-6 
  J 
  mm. 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  variable 
  species 
  may 
  prove 
  to 
  be 
  identical 
  with 
  A. 
  ustulata, 
  the 
  armature 
  

   of 
  the 
  males 
  being 
  similar. 
  

  

  