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the whole disk not over-thickly beset with small punctures, between 

 them stand numerous large cicatricose ones ; elytra transverse, with 

 scarcely any striation or puncture. Anterior tibiae somewhat curved 

 in the anterior third part of the length, which bears outwardly four 

 teeth and is crenated above these, the spur is very sharp and there 

 is a little tooth on the outer margin ; middle tibiae straight, small, 

 the spurs very long, spatulate, the tarsi ending in small claws and 

 moderately long, but with a tolerably thick coating of hairs ; hind 

 tibiae somewhat bent, and somewhat carinate outwardly before the 

 apex, tarsi almost as long as the tibiae, the first joint as long as 

 the three following taken together ; claws very slender, slightly bent, 

 as long as the two last tarsal joints taken together. 



Remarkable in this species is the dark brown hairiness of the fore 

 tibiae, of the basal half of the prothoracic border, and especially of 

 the upper margin of the hind legs and their tarsi, where they reach 

 a length of 6 millimeters. 



Length 26 mm. 



Hab. Sinclair (German South- West Africa.)" 



Pachysoma bennigseni, Felsch., 

 Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1907, p. 274. 



" Black. Head shaped and sculptured like in P. rotundigena, but 

 with detached little granules on the vertex. Prothorax strongly 

 transverse, its lateral margin strongly rounded, widest behind the 

 middle, anterior margins four times very slightly sinuate, the hind 

 ones slightly rounded, anterior angles sharp, posterior rounded, the 

 outer border sharply crenulated, the whole disc densely wrinkled 

 and granulated, intermixed are larger granules which become more 

 numerous on the back part, before the posterior margin is a row of 

 larger, longish punctures looking as if they were crumpled ; elytra 

 broadly cordiform, furrows marked with a median row of granules, 

 intervals somewhat convex, strongly wrinkled and having in the 

 middle a row of granules which are, however, indistinct in the juxta- 

 sutural interval. Pygidium broadly triangular, slightly convex, and 

 with isolated well-defined granules. Legs as in P. rotundigena, but 

 without the two teeth in the inner part of the fore tibiae, the spur is 

 less sharp, and without an external tooth; the claws of the hind 

 tarsi and also the villosity are less conspicuous. 



Length 20 mm. 



Hab. Orange River." 



