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ment; head and clypeus closely punctate, the punctures not con- 

 tiguous; pro thorax covered with sub-contiguous cicatricose punctures 

 hidden almost completely by the tomentum ; the elongated elytra 

 have no traces of costules, the suture is slightly raised at the apex 

 only, and the surface is seriate punctate, the shallow cicatricose 

 punctures are like those of Pseudoclinteria ; under side glabrous, 

 shiny, the whole abdomen and pectus very closely cicatricose 

 punctate. 



Length 15|— 17^ mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Upper Lim- 

 popo River, Umfuli River) ; Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez). 



Gen. STETHOSDEMA, Bainbr., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., hi., 1842, p. 220. 



Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, but broadening towards the 

 apex, and slightly obliquely attenuate from near the top of the 

 palps cavity to the apex the centre of which is broadly and deeply 

 triangularly notched ; inner and upper maxillary lobes simple, both 

 densely hairy ; last joint of labial and maxillary palps truncate at 

 apex ; clypeus triangularly acuminate towards the apex in the $ , 

 slightly ampliate laterally in the $ , deeply notched there with the 

 narrow outer angles truncate, frontal part short, simple, eyes 

 extremely bulging ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal but very plainly 

 sinuate laterally near the apex, basal angles rounded, the base 

 prolonged into a broad, long triangle overlapping the scutellum 

 almost up to the tip which is almost linear ; elytra elongated, 

 attenuate behind, plane, uni-costate, suture raised from the median 

 part, acuminate at apex ; sternal process very long, compressed, 

 diagonally truncate at apex from tip to base ; anterior tibiae plainly 

 bi-dentate, and slightly sinuate at a distance from the upper tooth ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae without any spine or transverse 

 carina on the upper side ; inner part fimbriate ; all tarsal joints 

 cylindrical on the upper part, claws long ; antennal club nearly as 

 long as the rest of the peduncle ; body almost glabrous. 



This genus was founded on a species from Guinea. 



Stethosdema servillei, White, 

 Proceed. Zool. Soc, xxiv., 1856, p. 15, pi. 41, fig. 3. 

 Var. cincticollis,'B,a,ftr., Rev. &Mag. d. Zool., 1877, p. 330, pi. ii.,fig.2. 

 dejeani, T. Thorns., Scient., i., 1860, p. 32. 

 Rufous brown, with a somewhat broad chestnut band all round 



