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parallel laterally, but a little attenuate in front, closely aciculate, the 

 aciculation deeper and denser in the posterior part ; elytra not broader 

 than the prothorax at base, oblong, striate, with the intervals plane, 

 closely and finely punctured, third and fifth with a series of well- 

 defined punctures ; under side piceous-red. Length 8 mm. ; width 

 3 mm. 



It is possible that the examples I have seen are partly imma- 

 ture. 



Size of H. difficilis, CataL, p. 436, but with the prothorax and 

 elytra much more parallel, the former especially ; it is as straight 

 laterally as in H. ornatus, CataL, p. 437, which it should precede. 



Hab. Natal (Malvern). 



Hypolithus ovampoanus. 



Black, iridescent ; palpi, antennae, margin of prothorax and legs 

 sub-rufescent ; head smooth ; prothorax very little ampliate laterally, 

 nearly straight, smooth, and aciculate along the base and in the 

 lateral depressions ; elytra oblong, not broader than the prothorax, 

 striate, with the intervals finely and closely punctured, a series 

 of punctures on the third and fifth intervals, and two or three 

 punctures on the seventh, spaced from near the median part to the 

 apex ; under side black, slightly iridescent. Length 8 mm. ; width 

 3 mm. 



Shaped nearly like H. patruelis, but the sides of the prothorax are 

 not so parallel, and the discoidal part of the prothorax is much more 

 smooth ; the punctures on the intervals of the elytra are not so deep, 

 and there is no trace of punctures on the seventh interval in H. 

 patruelis. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



Hypolithus audens. 



Head and prothorax testaceous-red, antennae, palpi, and legs pale 

 testaceous ; epistoma and anterior part of the head punctured ; 

 prothorax truncate at apex and base, rounded laterally and a little 

 ampliated at about the median part, not at all sinuate towards the 

 base, slightly depressed on each side at the base, closely and dis- 

 tinctly aciculate all over, and briefly pubescent ; longitudinal median 

 line short ; elytra oblong, deeply infuscate in the dorsal part but 

 having a very broad testaceous margin extending as far as the fifth 



