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head, prothorax, pectus and sides of abdomen clothed with a dense 

 sub-flavescent pubescence ; the median part of the scutellum, and 

 also of the pygidium, is occasionally longitudinally brick-red. This 

 species is so closely allied to the preceding one that it might easily 

 be taken for a variety of the same. It is, however, one-third larger, 

 the anterior margin of the clypeus is much more plainly quadri- 

 dentate ; the pubescence is conspicuously longer on the prothorax ; 

 the elytra have a series of small, black patches on the two dorsal 

 costae, but there is occasionally faint traces of similar spots in 

 A. rusticus ; the upper spur of the hind tibiae is slightly shorter, and 

 in the male the spinose outer part of the hind tarsi is more robust. 

 The clasps of the genital organ of the male are only moderately 

 curved at apex and slightly sinuate laterally at about the median 

 part in A. rusticus, but they curve more abruptly downwards in 

 A. germari, and they are not sinuate laterally. 



The habits of this species are those of the preceding ones. I have 

 found it also under sand on the sea-shore. 



Length 13-16 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Neighbourhood of Cape Town, Kowie, 

 Albany). 



Anoplochilus vaeiabilis, Gor. and Perch., 

 Mon., p. 261, pi. 50, fig. 1. 

 spinitarsis, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., hi., p. 21, pi. 1. 



Colour very variable ; brick-red on the upper side and black 

 underneath, brick-red on the upper side with two longitudinal 

 black patches in the discoidal part of the prothorax, dark olive- 

 green on the surface only, or totally black ; hairy on the head, but 

 glabrous on the prothorax and elytra, and with a light fulvous 

 pubescence on the pectus ; palpi and pedicel of antennae rufescent ; 

 the maxillary galea is sharply bi-dentate ; clypeus distinctly narrowed 

 towards the apical part, which is very deeply sinuated, with the outer 

 angles sharp and reflexed, and the central part of the emargination 

 slightly bi-dentate in the male, but simple in the female, in which 

 sex the outer clypeal angles of the clypeus are slightly rounded ; 

 prothorax covered with deep punctures set closer to each other on 

 the sides than on the disk ; scutellum punctured laterally but not at 

 the base ; elytra narrowed behind, plainly pluri-costate in the dorsal 

 part with the intervals deeply and broadly punctured, almost foveo- 

 late, and punctate seriate laterally ; pygidium covered with slightly 

 cicatricose shallow punctures, moderately pubescent ; basal joint of 

 intermediate tarsi spinose outwardly, that of the hind tarsi pro- 



