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covered with very distinct granules set close to one another, but not 

 coalescing, in the centre of the disk there is a fairly well-defined 

 longitudinal impressed line reaching from near the base to past the 

 median part, and the basal part itself is not as granulose at middle 

 as the anterior or the lateral part of the disk, the outer margin is 

 slightly crenulate, not much rounded behind past the median part, 

 and is neither recurved nor angular at base ; elytra distinctly striate 

 with the intervals set with very minute, not closely set granules ; 

 pygidium set with very minute remote granules ; metasternum pro- 

 duced in a distinctly triangular process and grooved from a deep 

 transverse basal impression to a short distance from the tip of the 

 aculeate process, the whole metasternum is very closely granulose ; 

 anterior tibiae of male deeply emarginate in a semicircle inwardly at 

 tip, and with a sharp, inner spur, tooth of anterior femora situated 

 half-way between apex and middle. 



Length 12f-13 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Southern Ehodesia (Middle 

 Limpopo), Mozambique (Delagoa Bay), Natal (Durban, Umvoti 

 County), Bechuanaland (Kanye). 



Gymnopleurus chloeis, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 650. 



Smaller, greener, and less opaque than G. thalassinus ; the shape 

 and sculpture of the head and prothorax are similar, but the elytra, 

 which are a little more narrowed behind, are very much more deeply 

 striate, the intervals are also a little more distinctly granulose in the 

 basal part. 



I am indebted to Herr H. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum, for a 

 female example of this species. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Sena, teste Klug). 



Gymnopleurus c^elatus, Wiedem., 



Plate XXXV. fig. 11. 

 Germ. Mag. Ent., iv., 1821, p. 127. 



Somewhat dark coppery bronze on the upper side, legs and under 

 side dark cyaneous ; head and clypeus rugulose, anterior part of the 

 latter sub-foveate ; prothorax with numerous conspicuous finely 

 plicate impressions, outer sides very roughly shagreened, outer 

 margin distinctly duplicate from the median part, and directed 



