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shallow impressions. Prothorax a little broader than long, sides 

 rounded, broadest rather behind middle, more narrowed in front 

 than behind, base sub-bisinuate ; upper surface somewhat convex, 

 with coarse confluent punctures, except on the lateral red patches 

 where there are only a few remote punctures, with a faint trace of a 

 central furrow in the basal half and a very shallow transverse 

 impression towards apex. Elytra broader than long, but more 

 transverse in the ^ (?), the basal margin shallowly sinuate, a little 

 broader than the base of the prothorax and with the external angles 

 very slightly prominent, shoulders broadly rounded but not dilated, 

 the sides gradually narrowed posteriorly, the declivity subangulated 

 dorsally, very steep in ^ (?), more sloping in 2 ', upper surface, 

 almost plane in the middle of the disk and sloping laterally, im- 

 punctate or with a few obsolescent punctures, with an obtuse low 

 oblique costa from the shoulder to the declivity near the suture and 

 there united with the opposite costa by the obtuse angulation of the 

 declivity, the dorsal margin more or less obtusely carinate from the 

 shoulder to the apex, and a short oblique callus on each side of 

 the base. Legs black, bare, with sparse black setae on the under 

 sides ; inner angle of tibiae with a short straight spur, outer angle 

 slightly produced ; tarsi moderately long and stout. 



Cape Colony [Brit, and Stockh. Muss.] . 



Type in the British Museum. 



A well-marked species. The differences in the shape of the elytra 

 mentioned above are probably sexual. I have seen three specimens 

 only. 



4. Brotheus caeinatus, sp. nov. 

 Plate VI., fig. 14. 



Long. 6 ; lat. 4J mm. 



Colour entirely dull black, except the basal two-thirds of the 

 prothorax, which is dull red. 



Head obsoletely punctured, the forehead with two large shallow 

 depressions. Prothorax broader than long, its sides subparallel 

 from base to middle, thence strongly narrowed to apex, the base 

 bisinuate ; upper surface very rugose, with ' a transverse row of four 

 low ill-defined tubercles in the basal half, the apical portion rugosely 

 granulate and without a transverse impression ; the sides rugose. 

 Elytra subquadrate, the basal margin trisinuate and not broader 

 than the base of the prothorax, shoulders obtuse and not dilated 

 laterally, the sides subparallel as far as the declivity, which is very 

 steep, but rounded dorsally; upper surface with a high oblique 

 curved and crenelated carina passing from near the shoulder right 



