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in front, that is to say not dentate in the median part of the 

 anterior margin, and having a median somewhat short, longitudinal 

 keel, the lateral margins are moderately sinuate and are continued 

 inwardly to a short distance from the anterior angle, and abut nearly 

 on the reflexed anterior margin ; prothorax of the usual shape, and 

 deeply punctate ; scutellum normal and closely punctate ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, faintly striate except in the posterior part where the 

 ■striae, especially the lateral ones, are a little more distinct, but 

 the two supra-marginal ones are distinct from base to apex, the 

 intervals are coarsely punctured. I have not seen the male of 

 this species. 



Length 8^-10 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



Trocelilus placens, n. spec. 



Eeddish-brown, ampliato-ovate, convex and very shiny, antennae 

 rufescent; shorter and more ampliate than T. badius, and resembling 

 greatly T. fulgidus ; the clypeus is strongly keeled longitudinally, 

 very narrowed in front, and the outer angles are as much rounded 

 as in that species, but the anterior median part projects a little, and 

 the lateral margin which is very strongly raised above the lateral 

 constricted part, slants thence towards the anterior one which it 

 reaches at a short distance from the rounded outer angle in the 

 manner of T. badius, but in the latter the lateral margin is not 

 strongly sinuate, nor is it as much raised as in T. placens, and the 

 punctures, although deep, are not so coarse. The shape of the lateral 

 margin of the clypeus greatly resembles that of T. modesties, but in 

 this species, which is much less ampliato-ovate, it does not reach the 

 anterior edge. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. ? Transvaal. 



Teochalus fulgidus, Fahr., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 130. 



? T. splendidulus , Fahr., loc. cit., p. 129. 



Strongly ovate, chestnut-red, or dark bronze, shiny, moderately 

 iridescent ; antennae rufescent ; clypeus very narrow, straight in 

 front but with the outer angles rounded, the lateral margin is only 

 moderately raised above the lateral constriction and produced thence 

 towards the anterior margin, which it reaches at a short distance 

 from the rounded outer angle, much in the same manner as in 



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