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lated, eyes raised ; prothorax transverse with the outer sides acute 

 hardly convex ; elytra oblongo-ovate, little convex, once and a half as 

 broad in its greatest width as the prothorax, and acuminated behind ; 

 each one has on the disk a row of long, sharp spines slightly directed 

 backwards ; these spines are equi-distant from one another ; the 

 outer margin has also a row of short spines arranged in the same 

 manner and reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Some examples 

 (female) have sometimes traces of an intermediate series of very short 

 spines between the suture and discoidal row. The underside is briefly 

 pilose, the legs very long and slender, the claw» and spurs reddish. 



Captured near Port Nolloth, Little Naniaqualand, by Mr. R. 'Light- 

 foot, after whom I propose to name it. 



Gren. Sepidium. Fabric. 



S. ZAMBEZIANUM. 



Nigrum, brunneo tomentosum setisque erectis tectum ; prothoracis 

 lateribus valde acutis, processu apicali bi-calloso ; elytris tuberculis 

 validis setigeris trifariam seriatis in singulo instructis. 



Long. 13-16, lat. 5-6| mm . 



Black, covered with a brown tomentum and short rigid bristles ; 

 prothorax with the lateral sides produced in the middle in a long, 

 sharp, triangular spine, disk with three series of long, rigid bristles, 

 much raised and ending at the apex in a large, bifid, bristly tubercle, 

 higher than the disk, and ending abruptly above the head which it 

 does not overhang ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax, nearly 

 parallel, but little convex, and each with three series of much deve- 

 loped setigerous tubercles with the intervals reticulated. 



Not unlike S. senegalense, Klug., but the apical process of the 

 prothorax is much more raised and strongly bifid at the top ; it is 

 also less convex, and the tubercles are much more developed. 



Zambeze River, and between the Limpopo and Zambeze Rivers. 



Tribe : PEDINID^. 

 Gen. Trigonopus. 



T. ARMAT1CEPS. 



Oblongus, niger, sub-nitidus, glaber ; epistome arcuato, in medio 

 ,exciso dentibusque ditobus armato ; prothorace sub-rotundato, supra 



