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elytra parallel, with the base straight and the shoulders not rounded, 

 a little attenuated towards the posterior part and sinuate at the apex, 

 nearly plane, narrowly striate, with the intervals almost plane and 

 the punctures on the third interval very indistinct ; under side reddish 

 brown ; legs rufescent or piceous. Length llj mm. ; width 4:f mm. 

 Hah. Zambezia (Upper Limpopo Eiver). 



Anisodactylus sobrinus. 



The description of A. caffer applies almost entirely to this species ; 

 the distinctive specific characters are : the absence of black muculse 

 on the two basal joints of the antennae, the length of the labrum 

 which is greatly developed and nearly three times as long as in A. 

 caffer, in which species it is abnormally short, and the base of 

 prothorax less closely aciculate, while the anterior transverse groove 

 is entirely wanting ; the punctures on the third interval of elytra more 

 distinct. Length 11|- mm. ; width 4 J mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Upper Limpopo Eiver), Natal (Maritzburg) . 



Anisodactylus australis. 

 Harpulus caffer, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 203. 



Black, shining ; palpi, antennae, and legs rufescent ; labrum reddish 

 brown ; head smooth ; prothorax a little ampliated in the anterior 

 part, very slightly aciculate in the basal part, outer edges faintly 

 ferruginous, transverse anterior groove a little distinct in the female 

 only, posterior angle blunt, slightly rounded ; elytra parallel, the base 

 straight, and the shoulders not rounded, sinuate near the apex, 

 nearly plane, narrowly striate, with the intervals slightly convex, less 

 so in the female, in which sex the punctures on the third interval are 

 also less distinct, and the black colouring of the body more opaque ; 

 under side piceous. Length 11^-14 mm. ; width 4^5J mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Upper Limpopo), Mozambique (Lourenco- 

 Marquez). 



Boheman has described this species from female examples, and, 

 naturally enough, placed it in the genus HarjxUits. 



Anisodactylus harpalinus. 

 Black, shining ; antennae, palpi, labrum, and legs rufescent; head 

 smooth ; prothorax a little attenuated in the anterior and posterior 

 part, and thus ampliated in the centre, smooth in the disk, very 

 slightly aciculate in the basal part, the anterior transverse depression 

 very noticeable in the male, lateral edges narrowly ferruginous ; 

 elytra hardly broader at the base than the prothorax at the middle, 

 parallel, the base straight and the shoulders not rounded, hardly 



