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Length 10|— 13J mm. ; width 6-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Knysna, Graham's Town, 

 Kowie) ; Natal (Durban). 



Atys infans, n. spec, 

 Plate LI., fig. 62. 



Testaceous-red, with the elytra a little lighter, each puncture on 

 the upper side bearing an extremely minute hair ; head somewhat 

 small, clypeus blunt, slightly sinuate, clypeal carina moderately 

 arcuate, suture distinct, basal carina plain, slightly arcuate, clypeus 

 with contiguous foveate punctures, frontal part closely scrobiculate, 

 the narrow intervals scabrose ; club of antennae long in the male ; 

 prothorax ampliated laterally at about the median part, attenuated 

 thence towards the sharp basal angle, serrate only along the anterior 

 part of the outer margins, covered with equally distant, round 

 punctures separated by narrow, smooth intervals, somewhat raised, 

 however, in the discoidal part which has a more or less distinct, 

 median, smooth line, these punctures are very little broader in the 

 posterior than in the anterior part ; scutellum with a lateral row of 

 punctures ; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated laterally before the 

 median part, covered with closely set round punctures divided by a 

 narrow interval not half their diameter, but nearly equal to it, 

 however, in the posterior part, and very slightly raised, especially 

 along the juxta-sutural part, which is on that account slightly 

 coriaceous ; pygidium foveato-punctate, the punctures set more or 

 less apart, the distance varying in each of the six male individuals 

 which I have examined ; median part of abdomen slightly depressed 

 and with very few punctures on each segment, including the 

 penultimate one which is broader than the antepenultimate, last 

 one very narrow ; transverse, plane ; pectus with very short, 

 appressed hairs ; upper tooth of all the claws more slender and 

 shorter than the lower. 



Female unknown. 



Length 10-10+ mm. ; width 5-5 J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, ? Pretoria) ; Natal (Frere). 



Atys straminea, n. spec. 



This species, the female only of which is known to me, greatly 

 resembles -4. hybrida in shape and size, the clypeus, however, is 

 much more blunt and plainly sinuate in the middle in front ; the 

 punctures on the prothorax are almost confluent on the sides and 

 in the anterior part, and the smooth interspaces of the discoidal 



