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plicate depression on each side of the epistoma ; prothorax smooth, 

 twice as broad as long at the apex, truncate, apically rounded laterally 

 from the apical angle to the humeral, which is sharp, and produced 

 diagonally from the humeral tooth towards the median part of the 

 base, which is impressed on each side and produced in a short 

 truncate quadrate process broader than the peduncle ; elytra short, 

 slightly narrower than the prothorax across the basal angles, ovate 

 with the basal part truncate and sinuate, the humeral angles pro- 

 jecting in a well-developed tooth, depressed in the anterior part and 

 moderately convex behind, faintly striate with the intervals smooth, 

 outer margin sharply carinate with a faint series of very small 

 tubercules turning to punctures in the anterior part instead of an 

 intramarginal carina, and a line of similar tubercules in the arcuation 

 of the base, third interval with two very faint impressions in the 

 posterior part. Length 24-33 mm. ; width 11-12 mm. 



Hab. This species has not, to my knowledge, been found any- 

 where but on the Table or neighbouring mountains. 



Gen. PASSALIDIUS, Chaud., 

 Eev. Zool., 1863, p. 116. 

 Mentum broad, deeply excavate, the lateral lobes spear shape, the 

 median tooth nearly straight laterally, carinate in the middle, 

 quadrifid at tip ; ligula very concave ; palpi of Scarites ; maxillge 

 curved, falcate at tip, the falciform tooth very sharp and long ; 

 antennse short, basal joint claviform, not longer than the two follow- 

 ing, second and fourth equal, third nearly as long as the second 

 and fourth together, shaped like a broadly truncate cone, the other 

 joints thick, moniliform ; mandibles moderately long, thick, the 

 internal teeth much developed ; labrum narrow, trilobate ; head 

 transverse, supra-orbital ridge much developed, the gense projecting 

 very much ; prothorax broader than long, outer sides nearly straight, 

 posterior angle hardly defined ; elytra not broader than the 

 prothorax, parallel, without humeral tooth, not much convex, fused ; 

 anterior tibiae with a strong digitation, intermediate and posterior 

 ones with a strong spine ; abdominal segments with the median 

 punctures indistinct or entirely wanting. 



Passalidius fortipes, Bohem., 

 Plate IX., fig. 3. 

 Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 10. 

 P. Andersoni, Chaud., Eev. Zool., 1863, p. 117. 

 P. afer, Chaud., loc. cit., p. 116. 



Black, moderately shining ; mandibles very roughly strigose ; 

 head covered with very rough sinuate plicae from the apex to near 



