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with a few scattered granules on each side of the base, becoming 

 denser in the centre and replaced in the anterior part by foveolate 

 punctures the intervals of which are finely granulose ; prothorax 

 convex, very finely aciculate rather than shagreened, and having 

 laterally some minute granules hardly visible ; the outer margin is 

 very feebly sinuate a little past the middle, and slightly rounded 

 towards the base with the marginal carina angulate ; elytra as in 

 the preceding species, but a little less elongate, the striae are not 

 so deep, and the intervals are a little more roughly shagreened ; 

 pygidium aciculate ; metasternum produced in a triangular process 

 similar to that of G. mashunus, and with the same sculpture ; legs 

 similar. 



Length 20 mm. ; wadth 13 mm. 



This species is to be distinguished from G. azureus as well as from 

 G. i:)rofanus and G. cliloris by the prothorax being more rounded 

 laterally towards the base. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



GyMNOPLEURUS FASTIDITUS, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft. 1867, i., p. 74. 

 ? G. munclus, McLeay, Hor. Entom., 1821, p. 510. 



Dark bronze, sub-opaque on the upper side, legs and under side 

 dark cyaneous ; head covered with granules not closely set, anterior 

 part of clypeus sub-fossulate ; prothorax covered wdth small but very 

 distinct granules not set close to one another ; the carina of the 

 outer margin is distinctly sinuate in the middle and slightly rounded 

 towards the base where it is slightly recurved, and distinctly 

 angular ; in the centre of the disk there is a very indistinct lineiform 

 longitudinal impression ; elytra finely striate, intervals finely 

 shagreened and with minute granules springing from a puncture- 

 like impression, not closely set, and more shiny than the background ; 

 pygidium finely granulose ; metasternum produced in a sharp 

 aculeate process the basal part of which is impressed transversely ; the 

 sides of the metasternum are closely granulose, but the median part 

 is very slightly punctate and has a very faint median line reaching 

 from near the base to about two-thirds of the length ; anterior tibiae 

 of male a little incurved and broadening at tip where they are 

 slightly emarginate inwardly a little below the apex, but the apical 

 part is mucronate in the male. 



Length 19-21 mm. ; width 13-14: mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Salisbury). 



