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the type, is merely the small development of B. comuta, and 

 although I know B. minor, Kraatz, from description only, I doubt 

 not that it is the same insect as Boheman's. The identity of 

 armata and comuta is also corroborated by the shape of the ligula, 

 which is identical for the two, and is much less deeply emarginate 

 than in B. sanguinipes. 



Length $ 13-20 mm. ; width 8-12 mm. Length 2 16-23 mm. ; 

 width 9J~13i mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Humansdorp, Graaff-Eeinet, Cradock, Mon- 

 tagu, Worcester, Kimberley) ; Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo) ; 

 Damaraland (Nolagi), teste Boheman. 



LIPOCLITA, n. gen. 



Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, but broader at apex than at base, 

 fused with the ligula, depressed in the anterior part of the outer face, 

 sinuate at apex ; labial palps short, sub-lateral, the ultimate joint 

 short, obliquely truncate at tip ; maxillae somewhat robust, inner 

 lobe inermous, moderately ciliate inwardly at tip, upper lobe or galea 

 strongly hooked, slightly bifid at tip, and bearing on the outer margin 

 a thick pencil of hairs ; maxillary palps short, last joint cylindrical, 

 truncate at tip like the ultimate labial one, the truncate part slightly 

 oblique; clypeus (?) sub-parallel, emarginate in the centre in 

 front, head simple; prothorax strongly narrowed in front, and slightly 

 sinuate laterally in the post-median part ; moderately arcuate above 

 the scutellum which is long and very acute ; elytra somewhat short, 

 twice the length of the prothorax ; mesosternal process somewhat 

 strongly projecting but blunt at tip ; anterior tibiae tri- dentate out- 

 wardly, all the tarsi short, the two basal ones of the hind legs 

 strongly triangular ; hind spurs thickened in the 2 . 



The only species included in this genus, and of which I know the 

 female only, is very remarkable owing to the short cylindrical terminal 

 joints of both the labial and maxillary palps, which are truncate at 

 apex. Owing to the short, somewhat broadly triangular basal joints 

 of the hind tarsi, as well as the thickened hind spurs of the female, 

 it is more or less connected with Blmioccsta, but the diet probably 

 differs from that of the latter, because the galea is short, sub- 

 quadrate, and simple, instead of being strongly hooked and very 

 sharply toothed inwardly, as in L. limbaticollis. 



LlPOCLITA LIMBATICOLLIS, 11. Sp. 



Female : Piceous black, with the elytra turning to piceous red or 

 dark chestnut -brown ; club of antennae flavous ; prothorax with a 



