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and three times as long, slightly rounded at the humeral angle, 

 parallel, very little convex, striate, the pre-scutellary stria is long, 

 striae slightly punctulate, the intervals narrow and plane, the third, 

 fifth, and seventh have a series of punctures far apart from one 

 another, the supra-marginal stria is punctulate ; under side and legs 

 closely punctured. Length 24 mm. ; width 7 mm. 

 Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Teibe PTEKOSTICHINI. 



Gen. MELANODES, 

 CataL, p. 533. 



Following De Chaudoir's example, I included this genus in the 

 Chlcenini. I think, however, that owing to the presence of two 

 supra-orbital setigerous punctures instead of one, the genus should 

 be included in the Pterostichini, in the neighbourhood of Abacctus. 



Melanodes pugnator. 



Black, shining, not iridescent, palpi, the three basal joints of 

 antennas and tarsi piceous-red, the other joints of the antennae are 

 rusty red ; head smooth, very slightly impressed on the junction 

 with the epistoma, mandibles highly carinate on the upper side and 

 nearly laminate at the base ; prothorax of equal width at apex and 

 base, a little ampliated laterally from the apical angle to about two- 

 thirds of the length, and slightly narrowed and sinuate from there to 

 the outer angle which is sharp ; there is a very narrow faint longi- 

 tudinal median line, and the basal impressions are not deep and do 

 not reach the base ; elytra oblong, narrowly striate with the in- 

 tervals smooth, no scutellary stria. Length 11 mm. ; width If mm. 



Closely allied to M. rectangulus, Chaud., CataL, p. 534, but distin- 

 guishable by the very shallow frontal impressions, and the high 

 carination of the mandibles at the base, on the upper side ; the pro- 

 thorax is similar in shape, but the basal impressions are shallower 

 .and do not reach the basal margin. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban). 



