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narrowed behind, and having on each side two very distinct costae 

 which, even in very well preserved specimens, show through the 

 yellow, closely set, ovate scales clothing the surface, the suture, 

 however, is narrowly denuded ; pygidium vertical, sprinkled with 

 fine, numerous yellowish scales not hiding the background altogether, 

 propygidium with a broad apical band of closely set scales ; under 

 side closely scaly ; hind femora very strong, broadly dilated, with 

 the trochanters forming a sub-horizontal, not very sharp, spine at 

 about the median part of the thigh, very much as in M. Imtulus ; the 

 hind tibiae are also shaped as in M. l<ztulus, but the supra-apical 

 mucronate tooth of the inner edge is very much longer, and there is 

 a very distinct outer apical spur. 



Female : Clothed, like the male, with appressed orange-yellow 

 scales which are, however, more elongated and more hair-like on the 

 upper side ; the elytra are red instead of being black, and the two 

 costae are less apparent. 



As already stated the shape of the hind legs of the male is almost 

 similar to that of M. Iceiulus (Cat. i., p. 846), but in the latter the 

 prothorax has no denuded bands, and the elytra which are not as 

 highly bi-carinate are so evenly covered with scales that the two 

 discoidal keels are partially hidden. 



Length 6|— 7f mm. ; width 3-J— 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Stanger, Durban). 



Gen. MICEOPLIDUS, Per. (Catal. i., p. 876). 



Microplidus fulvovittis, Brancs. 

 Jahr., Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. Ill, pi. iv., fig. 3. 



" Elongate, convex, red, weakly ochraceous on the upper side and 

 densely clothed with sub-erect setulose hairs, under side densely 

 white squamose ; head elongated, clothed with ochraceous scales, 

 clypeus broadly rounded, antennae red ; prothorax convex, broader 

 than long, obtusely ampliate in the middle of the sides, much 

 narrower in front than behind and with the posterior margin obtusely 

 produced, ochraceous squamose with two dorsal distinct fulvescent 

 bands, and two less distinct on the sides ; elytra plainly narrower 

 towards the apex than the width of the prothorax, and half as long, 

 ochraceous and adorned with a short, oblique dorsal fulvescent band, 

 they are rounded singly at apex ; abdominal segments glabrous on 

 the upper side ; legs red, and more opaquely squamose than the rest 

 of the body. 



Length 5-6 mm. ; width 2J-3 mm. 



Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi Eiver." 



