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MELANOPHTHALMA TRANSVERSALIS, Gyll., 
Ins. Suec.jiv., p) lisa, me aie 
Ovato-oblong, a little convex, briefly pubescent. Body. dark 
testaceous-brown, or rufo-ferruginous, sometimes with the suture 
and the lateral margins of the elytra infuscate; antenne lighter 
testaceous, club three-jointed, infuscate ; thorax transverse, slightly 
rounded laterally, narrower than the elytra at the base, and with 
the hind angles almost straight and sub-acuminate; surface more 
or less strongly but not closely punctate, and with an arcuate, 
sometimes obsolete, transverse depression before the base; elytra 
striato- -punctate, with the intervals often more or less partly 
punctulate in rows; fore tibize and tarsi simple in both sexes. 
Length 1:3-2 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony. 
I have seen one example of this species which is easily distin- 
guishable from M. distnquenda by the dark, three-jointed antennal 
club and by the sides of the thorax, which are not angular, but on 
the contrary, are rather rounded. It is also separated from WM. 
capicola and M. picina by the usually light ferruginous red colour 
which is sometimes infuscate on the suture only, and on the lateral 
margins of the elytra. 
I have not yet received from South Africa WM. distingquenda, Com., 
it is, however, highly probable that this species, which has spread 
all over the world, and is met with in several regions of Africa, is 
also represented in the southern part of that continent. 
Sus-GEn. CORTICARINA, Reitt., 
Verhandl. K. K. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1880, p. 68. 
This sub-genus differs from the preceding one by the absence of 
tempora behind the eyes, which are contiguous to the anterior 
margin of the thorax; the first ventral segment lacks the post-coxal 
lines of the former group, but often the fore tibize of the male have 
inwardly a pre-apical tooth. 
Synopsis of Species. 
Elytra clothed with long, erect pubescence; thorax about twice 
narrower than the elytra, and having a more or less defined trans- 
verse groove before the base... . .-  trichonota. 
Elytra clothed with very short, decumbens pubeccence one 
almost as broad as the elytra, and with a nearly obsolete pre- 
scutellary small fovea or depression... +.. |...) <2 (einen lene LUE peS. 
