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the top of the dechvity there is a very distinct transverse carinate 

 ridge, emarginate or sHghtly incised at middle and sinuate laterally 

 above an elongate, lateral, shallow impression extending as far as 

 the lateral supra-marginal fossa, in the great development this carina 

 overhangs the declivity a little, the surface is covered with round, 

 very small, moderately deep punctures almost confluent ; elytra 

 very convex, covered with punctures similar to those on the pro- 

 thorax, very finely striate, striae very finely punctulate and intervals 

 plane, they are very strongly sinuate laterally above the epimera of 

 the metasternum ; pygidium closely punctate ; metasternum closely 

 punctulate except at the base where the punctures are obsolete, and 

 where there is an elongate, moderately deep impression ; apical spur 

 of anterior tibiae bent obliquely inwards at tip in both sexes, and 

 neither angular nor spinose outwardly at the bend. 



Length 18-22 mm. ; width 9-14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Somerset West, East London, ? Uitenhage), 

 Natal (Durban, Estcourt, Maritzburg, Erere, Newcastle), Transvaal 

 (Potchef stroom) . 



CoPTORHiNA viciNA, n. spec. 

 C. hlugi, Bohem. (part). 



Closely allied to C. hlugi ; the shape of the head is similar, but 

 the transverse frontal raised line is not interrupted in the centre ; 

 the outer sides of the prothorax are straight from the anterior sinua- 

 tion instead of being ampliated past the median part, and the 

 anterior sinuation is shorter and deeper and the margin is distinctly 

 reflexed, the retuse part of the prothorax is similar, but there is a 

 distinctly impressed median longitudinal line in the posterior part of 

 the disk, better defined than in C. hlugi ; the striae of the elytra are 

 much more deeply punctured, and the apical spur of the anterior 

 tibiae is distinctly spinose outwardly at the inwardly bent part ; 

 anterior tibiae with the three outer teeth longer and sharper than in 

 C. hlugi ; metasternum distinctly grooved longitudinally for nearly 

 the whole length. In the small development the prothoracic carina 

 is reduced to two median, very small tubercles. 



Length ll-16f mm. ; width 7-10 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



COPTOEHINA AUSPICATA, U. SpeC. 



Black, sub-opaque ; head closely scrobiculate, genae moderately 

 angular at base and sub-diagonal from there, clypeus in a line with 



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