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part at about one-third of the length, more or less denticulate 
laterally, and having normally a median, rounded, somewhat deep 
fovea near the base; elytra a little irregularly striato-punctate, the 
punctures coarse and rugose; fifth ventral segment hollowed in 
both sexes in a round, median fovea; fourth segment of the female 
also foveolate in the middle. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch) in November. In a male of 
this species the basal fovea of the thorax is almost obsolete. This is 
a mere aberration. 
CoRTICARIA CAPENSIS, Motsch., 
Bullet. Mosc., 1867, 1., p. 51. 
Size of C. pubescens, but more robust, elongate, sub-convex, 
sparsely pubescent, rufo-testaceous, with the antennz and the legs 
of a lighter colour; eyes black; thorax transverse, rounded, convex, 
deeply rugoso-punctate, and having a large rounded fovea impressed 
behind, sides very much arcuate, crenate; elytra, obsoletely striate, 
with the intervals wide, slightly plane, and closely punctate. 
Length $ lin.; width 4 lin. 
I have not seen any example of this Corticaria, but on careful 
consideration of the diagnosis, it seems highly probable that it is 
synonymous with C. pubescens, Gyll.* Motschulsky says nothing 
of the structure of the antenne and of the fifth ventral segment, 
which leads one to believe that these organs are quite similar to 
those of the last-named species. This author adds that C. capensis 
is shorter than C. pubescens, that the thorax is more transverse with 
the sides more marginate and more deeply crenate, the punctures of 
the elytra are coarser and transversely rugose, and the strie are less 
hollow, except the juxta-sutural one, which is strongly defined; the 
pubescence is less dense and disposed in rows. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
CoRTICARIA TENUICORNIS, Motsch., 
Bullet. Mosce., 1867, 1., p. 77. 
Colour and size of C. fulva, but a little narrower; antenne 
slender; elongate, sub-depressed, sparsely pilose, ferrugineo-tes- 
taceous, base of antenna, elytra, and legs a little lighter in colour ; 
eyes black; head and thorax closely rugoso-punctate, the latter 
* C. pubescens seems to have spread all over the world.—L. P. 
