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and rugulose ; under side, except the abdomen, clothed with dense 

 fulvous hairs ; metasternum deeply grooved longitudinally ; inner 

 claw of anterior tarsi moderately thick, long, and slightly bifid at 

 tip. 



Length 22-24 mm. ; width 12-141 mm. 



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

 burg, Knysna, Fraserburg, Uniondale). 



Pentodontoschema capicola, n. spec, 

 Plate XL., fig. 13. 



Very dark brown on the upper side, chestnut-brown beneath, 

 glabrous on the upper side, but somewhat thickly hairy on the 

 whole pectus ; head with the clypeus oblique, very feebly 

 dentate on each side at tip and slightly rounded there, there is a 

 very distinct transverse clypeal carina produced into a very short 

 conical tubercle in the centre, the clypeus is very closely pitted, and 

 the head behind the carina is more rugose than the clj'peus ; pro- 

 thorax simple in both sexes, elliptical laterally, but more attenuate in 

 the anterior than in the posterior part, and covered with shallow 

 punctures not closely set on the disk except in the anterior part 

 along the margin, where the punctures are broader, deeper, and 

 closely set ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra broader than the prothorax 

 at base, not sinuate laterally but gradually, although slightly, broad- 

 ening from the humeral part to three -fourths of the length where 

 they are a little more ampliate and rounded towards the posterior 

 part; elytra very feebly punctato-striate and with the two inter- 

 mediate dorsal striae nearly obliterated past the middle, the intervals, 

 except the first, second and third ones, have some series of punctures 

 more numerous laterally and a little deeper there than on the dorsal 

 part ; pygidium with a faint, scattered aciculation, but distinctly 

 rugulose at the basal angles ; intermediate abdominal segments with 

 a long series of closely set setigerous punctures ; metasternum 

 slightly aciculate at middle, somewhat depressed there, and with a 

 median grooved line ; anterior tibiae with three strong outer teeth, 

 an intermediate serrate one, and another above the digitation. 



Length 19-22 mm. ; width 11-13 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl, 

 Worcester). 



This species is distinguished from P. arics by the prothorax which is 

 simple in both sexes, the more rounded apical part of the clypeus 

 which is obsoletely dentate, or even not at all so in the female, the 

 short occipital tubercle, and the non-parallel elytra. 



