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elytra oblong, striate with the intervals plane, smooth and with one 

 median puncture on the third interval and four equidistant ones in 

 the posterior part, beginning at about two-thirds of the length ; the 

 extreme edge of the outer margins of the prothorax is faintly rufescent, 

 and the under side piceous-red. Length 10 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



In general appearance the insect is very much like A. harpalinus, 

 Catal., p. 426, which it should follow or precede, but the prothorax 

 is a little broader, and the disposition and number of punctures on 

 the intervals of the elytra are different. 



Hah. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Anisodactylus vicarius. 



Black, shining ; antennae, palpi and legs flavous ; extreme edge of 

 outer margins of prothorax faintly flavescent ; head smooth ; pro- 

 thorax one-third broader than long, rounded laterally and a little 

 ampliate more in the anterior than past the middle, nearly smooth on the 

 disk but aciculate along the base and in the lateral depressions, and 

 having a distinct median discoidal longitudinal line ; elytra oblong, 

 very little broader than the prothorax, narrowly striate with the 

 intervals plane, smooth and with four punctures in the posterior part 

 of the third interval, beginning at about three-quarters of the length ; 

 the two hind punctures are in the middle of the interval, the other 

 two almost in the second stria. Length 9f mm. ; width 4 mm. 



This species is also allied to A. harpalinus and still more to A. 

 degressus, from which it is differentiated by the prothorax which is 

 of nearly the same shape, but has a median discoidal groove, whereas 

 there is no trace of one in A. degressus ; there is no puncture in the 

 median part of the third interval, and the others are more closely set 

 and restricted to the posterior declivity. 



Anisodactylus procax. 



Black with the elytra greenish bronze ; antennae fuscous with the 

 two basal joints rufescent ; head smooth, frontal impressions very 

 distinct and arcuate ; prothorax one-third broader than long, very 

 little sinuate at apex and base, slightly ampliated and rounded 

 laterally from the apex to three-fourths of the length, smooth from 

 the apex to three parts of the length, but from there very closely and 

 deeply punctured along the base, and from side to side ; elytra oblong, 

 very slightly rounded at the shoulders, very distinctly punctato- striate 

 with the intervals plane, smooth, and with an asymetrical series of 



