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duced into a hamate, long process, second joint of both tarsi 

 normal. 



length 15-16 mm. ; width 9-9J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, Albany). 



The colour of the upper surface is very variable, the olive-green 

 turns often to reddish on the sides of the elytra. 



A. odiosus, Gor. and Perch., 

 Monog., p. 263, pi. 50, fig. 5. 



setosus, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., hi., p. 21. 

 maurus, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 117. 



Black, sprinkled all over with flavescent minute patches filling up 

 the punctures over which they are sprinkled ; antennae dark chestnut- 

 brown ; clypeus very narrowed laterally towards the apex, sinuate in 

 front and with the two outer angles sharp and reflexed in the $ , but 

 less acute in the ? , and somewhat hollowed on each side at the 

 extremity, closely punctate like the head which is only sparsely and 

 briefly setulose, not pubescent as in the other species ; the galea of the 

 maxillae is sharply bi-dentate in both sexes, but in the $ — and this 

 seems to be an exception — the mando or lower lobe has a short but 

 sharp inner tooth ; prothorax sloping diagonally laterally from the 

 apex to a third of the length, broadly rounded towards the base, 

 almost glabrous, deeply and closely punctured, faintly bi-impressed 

 on each side of the disk, and having a longitudinal, raised, nearly 

 smooth median line ; scutellum closely punctured, but having a 

 longitudinal, median impunctate band ; elytra slightly narrower at 

 the apex than at the base, plainly bi-costate on each side, and covered 

 with somewhat irregular cicatricose punctures ; pygidium punctate and 

 having occasionally a sprinkling of small, flavescent macules similar 

 to those on the elytra ; pectus sparingly pubescent ; basal joint of 

 intermediate tarsi normal, that of the hind ones produced outwardly 

 in a somewhat long spine of equal length in both sexes. 



Length 12-13 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Bustenburg, Lydenburg, Pretoria, Waterberg 

 Zoutpansberg), Bechuanaland (Bamoutsa), Ovampoland. 



Anoplochilus mashunus, n. sp. 



Female : Black, moderately shiny, antennae chestnut-brown ; very 

 closely allied to A. odiosus, and likewise almost glabrous on the head, 

 prothorax, and elytra ; the clypeus is also narrowed laterally towards 

 the apex and sinuate there, but the outer angles are more reflexed 

 and sharper than in the female of A. odiosus, and there is a median 



