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tooth, and also at the suture of the genae ; the whole surface is 

 closely shagreened, and the antennse and palpi are piceous-red ; 

 pro thorax as closely shagreened as the head, sub-diagonally ampliated 

 laterally from the rounded apical angle to about one-third of the 

 length, where it is rounded and is sub-parallel from there to the 

 basal angle which is nearly rounded ; in the centre of the disk there 

 is a longitudinal, smooth, shining line interrupted in the median 

 part, and also a very shallow basal impression ; elytra as broad as 

 the base of the prothorax, slightly ampliated laterally before the 

 middle where it is broader than the prothorax at its widest part, and 

 narrowly and finely striate ; the striae are edged by two parallel 

 lines slightly interrupted at short distances, and the intervals are 

 covered with elongate, shining tubercles ; pygidium shagreened ; 

 abdomen deeply aciculate ; metasternum closely and deeply 

 punctured on the sides and at middle, and with a very faint 

 median impressed line at base ; the anterior femora are very 

 closely and deeply punctured, while the intermediate and the 

 posterior ones have a few scattered granules ; posterior tibiae 

 sharply seriate inwardly in the male, but not in the female. 



Length 6-11 mm. ; width 4-7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes- 

 bury, Worcester, Namaqualand, Oudtshoorn, Hope Town). 



Epikinus asper, n. spec. 



Head and prothorax dull black, elytra a little less dull, clypeus as 

 in E. scahratus and equally shagreened ; antennae and palpi black ; 

 prothorax still more closely shagreened and having the same shape, 

 but there is no trace of a longitudinal shining line in the anterior 

 part, and there is a narrow short impressed line at the base ; elytra 

 as broad as the base of the prothorax, slightly ampliated laterally 

 before the middle where it is as broad as the prothorax at its widest 

 part, depressed, but with the suture a little convex, narrowly and 

 finely striate ; the striae are geminate, and the intervals have each a 

 double series of elongate, very distinct granules ; these intervals are 

 slightly raised at the base, and the double series of granules on the 

 seventh interval is more pronounced than the others ; the lateral 

 ridge is serrulate; pygidium deeply and somewhat closely punctured ; 

 the whole under side, including the legs, is closely and deeply punc- 

 tured; the metasternum has a very faint, median longitudinal 

 groove ; posterior tibiae crenulate inwardly in both sexes. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 6^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Ladysmith), Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



