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behind middle, narrowed towards apex and slightly towards the 

 base, which is bisinuate ; upper surface rugose, with an indistinct 

 central furrow, the apical margin often elevated into a low callus 

 divided in the middle. Elytra subquadrate, the basal margin 

 shallowly sinuate and not broader than the base of the prothorax, 

 shoulders prominent and tuberculate but not laterally produced, the 

 sides almost parallel from the shoulders to the declivity, which is 

 very abrupt and angulated dorsally ; upper surface almost plane as 

 far as interval 4, then sloping to interval 6, with large transverse 

 foveae which are regular only near the suture ; interval 4 with a 

 row of conical tubercles ceasing at the declivity, 6 with a similar 

 row extending to the apex, 3 and 5 each wath a basal tubercle and 

 2 with a short row of tubercles on the declivity. Legs with dense 

 brown scaling and sparse white setae ; tibiae scabrous, the external 

 apical angle more or less produced ; tarsi very short and stout. 



Transvaal : Leydenburg and Vaal Eiver [S. Afr. Mus.]. Cape 

 Colony: Kimberley (G. J.. -ST. ilf.), Bushmanland (G. ^/sto7i). Ovam- 

 POLAND [De Vylder — Stockh. Mus.), 



Type in the South African Museum. 



Allied to reichei, Boh., from which it may be distinguished by its 

 less elongate thorax, less transverse elytra, and the white setae on 

 the legs ; the outer row of tubercles on the elytra is also distinctly 

 below the level of the inner row, which is not the case in reichei. 



11. Synthocus eeichei, Boh. 



S. reichei, Boh., Schh. Gen. Cure, vh., 2, p. 411 (1842). 



Long. 6-81 ; lat. 4J-6i mm. 



Colour uniform light or dark brown, but often with a triangular 

 whitish patch at the apex of the disk. 



Prothorax evidently longer than broad, narrow, its sides almost 

 parallel, base sub-bisinuate ; upper surface rugosely tuberculate and 

 with a faint central furrow, sometimes with a shallow transverse 

 impression near apex and with the anterior margin elevated into a 

 low callus. Elytra very short, distinctly broader than long, the 

 basal margin sinuate -and not broader than the base of the thorax, 

 shoulders very prominent and rounded but not angularly produced, 

 broadest sometimes at the shoulders ( 2 ), sometimes behind middle 

 ( (^ ) , very steeply and angularly declivous posteriorly ; upper surface 

 almost plane as far as interval 6, but with a large and more or less 

 deep impression in the middle of the disk, with fairly regular rows 

 of large transverse foveas ; interval 4 with a row of small tubercles 

 reaching the declivity, 6 with a row of larger tubercles reaching 



