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base as the prothorax, the humeral callus is greatly developed, and 

 the metathoracic epimera are very large and bulging, they are some- 

 what depressed along the scutellum which is strongly sunken, and 

 fairly plane on the dorsal part, but slanting laterally from the slightly 

 diagonal costule that runs from the humeral angle to the posterior 

 part where it becomes a greatly elongated callus, the dorsal part is 

 plainly striate, with the striae faintly punctate, and the suture, as w T ell 

 as the first fonr dorsal intervals, are plainly sub-tectiform, while on 

 the sides the striae are very distinctly punctured, but the intervals 

 are plane; all the punctures bear a black bristle; the under side and 

 legs are superficially punctured, each puncture is setigerous, the setae 

 on the legs and breast being the longest. 



Length 13J-17 mm. ; width 7|— 9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Beaufort West, Willowmore). 



Schaum states (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1849, p. 284) that Cetonia 

 gariepina, Gory and Perch., is identical with Xiphoscelis schuckardi, 

 Burm. It is very plain, however, that the figure given in Gory and 

 Percheron's monograph has nothing to do with the latter species, 

 and that in all probability it is a small female of BhinoccBta cornuta. 

 Schaum admits that the figure is very faulty (" la figure de ces 

 auteurs est cependant peu reconnaissable ") ; he might have added 

 that the description was altogether misleading. I strongly suspect 

 that Gory and Percheron's example seen by Schaum was not the one 

 from which the description of these authors was made. 



Gen. EHINOC^TA, Burmeister, 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, hi., 1842, p. 612. 



Mentum sub-parallel, fused with the ligular part which is 

 rounded laterally and deeply sinuate or incised at apex (sanguinipes), 

 labial palpi inserted laterally near the apex (cornuta), last joint sub- 

 cylindrical, but thicker at base than at apex where it is somewhat 

 truncate ; maxillae robust, inermous, galea or upper lobe short, horny, 

 triangular, set outwardly with penicillate hairs ; clypeus incised 

 laterally at base, sub-parallel, deeply emarginate with the angles 

 rounded, and somewhat concave in front ; antennal club ovate 

 and not longer than the pedicel in either sex ; prothorax broader 

 than long by one-third, ampliated laterally from the apex to the 

 base which is broadly rounded and only slightly sinuate above 

 the very long and very acute scutellum ; elytra slightly narrowed 

 behind, moderately plane and more or less distinctly bi-costate on 

 each side ; pygidium broader than long, vertical ; legs very robust, 

 especially the thighs, anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate ; inter- 



