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the sides but not along the base which is arcuate, covered with 

 very closely set, somewhat rugose foveate punctures, and having a 

 faintly impressed median longitudinal line in the basal part of the 

 disk ; elytra deeply geminato-striate, strige impunctate, intervals 

 much raised, tectiform, roughly and deeply punctate on each side 

 along the striae, and scrobiculate laterally above the outer margin ; 

 pygidium covered with very closely set, almost confluent, small but 

 deep punctures, and more briefly pubescent than the upper part of 

 the body ; sides of abdomen sub-hirtose ; metasternum deeply but 

 not closely punctured, and having a distinct groove reaching from 

 the base to a little past the median part. 



Length 6^7mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban), Southern Bhodesia (Upper Hamyani 

 Eiver). 



The habits of this singular insect are not known. Mr. C. N. 

 Barker writes to me that he has found it only in some ruts or 

 furrows. It is not improbable that it also abides or lives in the 

 dung-heaps of white ants (Termes sp. sp.). 



SAPECECIUS, n. gen. 



Mentum rounded laterally, a little sinuate towards the tip where 

 it is also a little attenuate, deeply and broadly emarginate at apex, 

 convex on each side, and having a very broad and deep median 

 longitudinal sulcus ; basal joint sub-cylindrical, but a little wider at 

 apex than at base, second joint in the shape of an elongate club 

 nearly twice as long as the basal one, a little obliquely truncate 

 inwardly ; third one very short, subulate, apical joint of maxillary 

 palpi sub-fusiform, truncate at tip, and nearly as long as the three 

 preceding ones, maxillae strong, apical lobe narrow and equal in 

 length to two-thirds of that of the maxillae ; ligula bi-lobate, the 

 lobes moderately long and not very slender ; antennae nine-jointed, 

 basal joint nearly straight, cylindrical, second moniliform, third and 

 fourth in the shape of a truncate cone, but the fourth is broader 

 than the third, fifth and sixth sub-triangular inwardly, the sixth 

 fitting a little closely against the first joint of the club which is very 

 convex ; head with a broadly arcuate clypeus armed with two hori- 

 zontal teeth in the centre in both sexes ; eyes not showing much ou 

 the upper side ; prothorax simple, depressed, not much ampliate 

 laterally, deeply emarginate sub-circularly towards the base which 

 is arcuate, no scutellum ; elytra parallel, depressed, and having 

 .seven striae on each side ; no wings, pygidium large, sub- triangular. 



