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margin of the prothorax hairy, the basal part and also the 

 outer margins of the elytra are thickly and densely pubescent, 

 and the pubescence fulvous ; pectus also very thickly pubescent ; club 

 of antennae chestnut-brown ; clypeus short, semicircular from side 

 to side with the anterior margin moderately raised, separated from 

 the frontal part by a very plain, transverse stria, frontal part simple,, 

 whole head with somewhat scattered, round punctures ; prothorax 

 somewhat convex in the posterior part, not attenuated laterally from 

 the median part to the rather sharp outer angle, and covered with 

 equi-distant, not closely set, round punctures ; scutellum moderately 

 sharply ogival ; elytra sub-parallel, sinuate laterally in the anterior 

 part, covered with deep, round, equi-distant punctures separated 

 by an interval broader than their diameter, the juxta-sutural stria 

 is quite plain, and there is only a faint trace of a dorsal one ; 

 propygidium finely aciculate and very briefly pubescent ; pygidium 

 sparsely punctulate but smooth in the median part, not pubescent ; 

 abdomen sparsely punctulate even on the sides ; legs very slightly 

 punctate, femora moderately pubescent ; hind tarsi ciliate underneath. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 9| mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



TEgostetha ciliata, Herbst, 

 Kaf., hi., p. 45 ; pi. xxii., fig. 5. 

 M. maritima, Casteln., Hist. Nat., ii., p. 133. 



Head and prothorax black, elytra and under side light chestnut,, 

 legs reddish-brown ; the head, except the clypeus, and the prothorax 

 are clothed with a dense, long, appressed, fulvous pubescence, the 

 elytra have a very closely-set but very short pubescence of the same 

 colour altogether obscuring the background, the pygidial part and 

 abdominal segments are clothed with greyish appressed hairs much 

 less closely set than on the elytra, and the pectus is hidden by a 

 fulvous very dense villosity ; clypeus concave, truncate in front and 

 with the outer angles moderately rounded, impunctate, separated 

 from the somewhat depressed frontal part by a very plain, trans- 

 verse suture ; frontal part very closely punctured ; club of antennae 

 very strongly curved, and as long as the prothorax, the seventh 

 joint is plainly lamellate and about one-eighth of the length of those 

 forming the club, the sixth and also the fifth are somewhat aculeate, 

 the three preceding are equal and sub-moniliform ; prothorax emar- 

 ginate laterally, and sinuate from about the median part to the 

 somewhat sharp basal angle, very finely and closely punctured ; 

 scutellum finely punctured ; elytra sub-cylindrical, very finely 



