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of the clypeus is very slightly reflexed, there is a very slight, nearly 

 obliterated transverse impressed line between the gense, and the 

 whole surface is covered with deep, closely set, round punctures ; 

 prothorax slightly ampliate laterally at middle, not obliquely 

 attenuate towards the base the angles of which are sharp, somewhat 

 convex, and covered with round, closely set, deep punctures, a little 

 smaller or more shallow along the anterior than along the posterior 

 margin, it is glabrous, but the lateral and basal margins are ciliate ; 

 scutellum very narrow, elongate, impunctate ; elytra oblong, with 

 the humeral angles sharp, convex, deeply striate, the striae filled 

 with a series of deep, somewhat transverse punctures intruding on 

 the sides of the intervals which are strongly costate and smooth, 

 while from each puncture springs a short, whitish hair, forming a 

 very brief pubescence, especially in the posterior declivity, all the 

 lateral striae reach the base and also the apex, and the intervals are 

 a little more carinate and the punctures in the striae are deeper and 

 broader on the sides ; the abdominal segments are covered with 

 deep, almost confluent foveae from the intervals of which spring 

 a few lateral stiff cili^, but the whole of the apical segment is 

 densely ciliate ; mesosternum and metasternum entirely covered with 

 similar, round foveae ; tibiae also foveate, anterior ones truncate at tip 

 and with a short spur curving slightly downwards, and set, in the 

 angle of the inner part, apical outer tooth slightly oblique, the other 

 two teeth straight, and the space between the basal tooth and the 

 elbow bluntly pluri-serrate ; anterior tarsi short; basal joint of 

 posterior tarsi longer than the apical spurs. 



Length 4 J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



LOEDITOM^US, n. gen. 



Mentum ampliate and rounded laterally in the median part, deeply 

 emarginate at tip, the emargination being broadly arcuate, the surface 

 is plane, with a few long bristles two of which on each side are very 

 long, and the upper margin has also a few bristles ; the ligula is very 

 small, membranaceous, and finely ciliate ; the labial palpi are some- 

 what long, with the basal joint bristly, and the bristles very long 

 inwardly^ the apical joint is as long as the basal, and fusiform,, but 

 sub-truncate at tip ; maxillae moderately long, robust, apical lobe 

 membranous, longer than broad, inner lobe very slender, membranous, 

 toothless ; maxillary palpi long, apical one not so long as the second, 

 sub-fusiform but more swollen inwardly than outwardly, and sub- 



