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and the bristles alike ; elytra more or less ampliated in the middle 

 (17™-"'- across the shoulders, 21 to 24''"™' in the middle, and 19 to 

 22°''"' at the declivity), long, retuse behind, plane on the disk with the 

 outer margins raised, and very closely and sharply serrated ; the sides 

 of the disk with a fine, dense, closely set granulation, leaving a nearly 

 smooth discoidal space. 



Length, 44-46 ; width, 21-23"'-'"- 

 Female : Colour of the male, and very shining, much depressed or 

 moderately convex, the granulation very close, and the raised lines on 

 each elytron well defined. 



Length, 38-45 ; lat., 19-22'"-'"- 



Doubtless closely allied to mygaloides , more shining as a rule and 

 also longer. It is mostly differentiated by the serration of the outer 

 margins, which is closer and sharper, the two humeral spines are 

 always set at equal distance from one another, which is not the case 

 with mygaloides ; the more elongated shape of the upper part of the 

 elytra, with the disk very much depressed, imparts to it a different 

 facies, although the more rotund specimens form a link with mygaloid$s 



Mr. A. W. Eriksson has collected ;i good number of examples of this 

 species in Northern Ovampoland, where M, mygaloides (typical) was 

 aliiio met with. 



Northern Ovampoland. 



M. LATiPENNis, Waterh. 



Magar. Natur. Hist. I, 1837, p. 503, fig. 62. 

 Hope. The Coleopt. Manual, 1838, frontispiece part II. 

 Klug. Linn. Entomol. IV. 1849, p. 421, pi. 11, fig. 6. 



Waterhouse having described this species from a female example, the 

 identity of latipennis cannot be ascertained, and although I belie\e 

 that female to have been that of mygaloides, owing to the locality from 

 which it is said to come from, I consider as the true latipennis of Klug, 

 if not of Waterhouse, some examples I have received from the neigh- 

 bouihood of Delagoa Bay, and which agree very much with the figure 

 in King's monograph. 



