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and closely punctate, and showing no traces of striae or costules 

 except the juxta-sutural stria ; pygidium vertical, somewhat deeply 

 and very closely punctate, sub-coriaceous. 



Female unknown. 



Length 21-22 mm. ; width 11-12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kiversdale, Knysna). 



I am not quite satisfied that this insect is the M. ciliata of Herbst, 

 and I only give it on Burmeister's authority. The figure given by 

 Herbst is more like M. brachiata, but this author's description 

 is almost useless. There is very little doubt, however, that it is 

 the M. maritima of Castelnau. 



JEgostetha brachiata, n. spec. 



Male : Black, the elytra chestnut-red ; clypeus straight laterally, 

 truncate in front but with the outer angles rounded, half as 

 long as broad, scrobiculate, suture somewhat arcuate, frontal 

 part scrobiculate but not as broadly as on the clypeus ; club 

 of antennae extremely long, strongly curved ; prothorax twice as 

 broad as long, strongly slanting laterally from the apical part 

 for one-third of the length, and slightly thence to the basal 

 angle which is sharp, marginate all round, very slightly convex, and 

 having a somewhat deep longitudinal impression along the outer 

 margin, covered with nearly contiguous, round, deep punctures, w T ith 

 the intervals somewhat raised in the posterior part, and a median 

 longitudinal smooth line, slightly raised, and obliterated at both 

 ends, the margins bear traces of a band of appressed, flavescent 

 hairs, denser and thicker laterally ; scutellum ogival, but somewhat 

 rounded at the tip, closely foveolato-punctate and very densely 

 pubescent along the base ; elytra slightly broader than the basal 

 part of the prothorax, but with the basal angles very broadly 

 rounded, and the humeral callus very distinct, a little ampliated 

 at a short distance from the shoulder, and nearly of the same width 

 thence to the rounded posterior part, covered with moderately broad, 

 irregularly yet closely set punctures the intervals of which are 

 somewhat coriaceous, especially laterally, and having in addition 

 to the plain sutural stria two geminate ones on the disk, and an 

 elongated impression under the humeral callus, each puncture 

 bears a very minute hair almost always obliterated, but less so 

 along the margins and the suture, the outer margin has a row 

 of equi-distant somewhat stiff bristly hairs ; pygidium very closely 

 punctured, the sculpture, however, is hidden by a coating of dense, 

 flavescent appressed hairs ; the abdomen has a less dense coating 



