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lighter on the sides but without a distinct testaceous band, the much 

 shorter pubescence on the pygidium, the frontal carina, which is not 

 straight or nearly so, but plainly arcuate, the vertex with a short 

 but strong carina nearly straight and slightly sinuate on the top edge, 

 the prothorax and the intervals of the elytra completely and more 

 densely granulate, the granules of the prothorax regularly rounded 

 on the disk, and the metasternum very plainly punctured, instead of 

 being nearly smooth, especially on the posterior part. 



Length 8-5 mm. 



Hah. Great Namaqualand. 



H. d'Orb. 



Phalops pyeoides, n. spec. 



Coppery red, sometimes with a greenish tinge turning vaguely 

 into metallic testaceous on the sides of the elytra ; pygidium 

 greenish coppery. Very near P. dregei, Har. ; differs by the elytra 

 being metallic instead of brown or testaceous ; the pubescence of the 

 pygidium is much shorter ; the disk of the prothorax is densely 

 provided with a mixture of large, but little closely-set granules and 

 of numerous much smaller granules, instead of moderately large 

 and moderately remote granules ; the intervals of elytra bear 

 moderately fine and very densely- set granules with an admixture of 

 numerous extremely fine punctures or granules, instead of being 

 provided only with moderately fine and somewhat numerous 

 granules ; the lamina on the vertex ( $ ) is divided into two points 

 which are distinctly dented at their base. 



Length 9^-10 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja ; Windhoek). 



H. d'Orb. 



Gen. DIASTELLOPALPUS, Lansb. 



DlASTELLOPALPUS OPBIGNYI, n. Sp. 



Plate XLVIIL, figs. 1, 2. 

 Ann. S. Afric. Mus., hi., 1904, p. 224. 



Male : Black, shiny, almost glabrous on the upper side, pectus, 

 legs and under side of prothorax clothed with fulvous hairs, pygidium 

 and abdominal segments with shorter sub-flavescent ones ; antennae 

 yellow with the exception of the three basal joints which are piceous- 

 red ; clypeus broadly arcuate in front with the margin entire and 

 reflexed, genae hardly prominent, in the centre, in a line with the 

 suture at the junction of the genae there is a high, laminate, sharply 

 and broadly triangular keel the moderately rounded basal angles of 

 which are continued towards the frontal part as a sloping ridge set 



