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margin of the thorax, and without any temporal tubercle at the back 
of them; eighth joint of the antennz sub-globose, ninth and tenth 
about equal, transverse, dilated, and rounded from the very base ; 
thorax transverse, rather rugosely punctate, and with a pre- 
scutellary fovea, broadest laterally before the median part, but 
narrowed towards the base; lateral margin sharply denticulate, 
especially behind; elytra more or less strongly striato-punctate, 
with the intervals transversely regulose. Length 13-2 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 
Motschulsky has described the two following species as specifically 
distinct from C. serrata; I believe, nevertheless, that they do not 
essentially differ. 
CoRTICARIA (ADASIA) QUADRICOLLIS, Motsch., 
Bullkewose; fS67.1:, p.09: 
According to Motschulsky, ‘“‘ the thorax is narrow and the colour 
darker than in C. laticollus, Mannerh. (=C. serrata, Payk.); it is 
elongate, hardly shining, covered with scattered punctures, and of a 
dark ferruginous colour; the mouth, the antennz, which are short, 
and the legs are rufo-testaceous; head short, triangular ; eyes black, 
prominent; thorax broader than the head by one-third, almost 
quadrate, densely punctulate, and having behind an obsolete, 
rounded, small fovea, sides hardly arcuate; elytra one-fourth wider 
than the thorax, elongato-ovate, closely punctato-striate, with the 
intervals transversely rugose. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
CorticaARIA (ADASIA) ADUSTIPENNIS. 
Bull. Mosc., 1867, 1., p. 59. 
The author describes this species as being the size of C. serrata 
but narrower, thorax more cordate, shining, strongly but not closely 
punctured ; the basal fovea is deep, and the lateral crenulation finer ; 
elytra a little wider than the thorax, sub-parallel with the striz 
regularly punctate; the intervals are transversely rugose and dis- 
appear towards the apex. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
