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traces of dorsal costules ; under side closely aciculate ; anterior tarsi 
moderately long. 
Length 7|~8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 
Canthaeis lucida, Haag-Rut., 
Deutsch. Entom. Zeit., xxiv., 1880, p. 65. 
Bright emerald-green, elytra bright straw-colour, antennae and palpi 
black, tarsi cyaneous ; clothed except on the elytra which are glabrous, 
with a fine, greyish flavescent pubescence, only moderately dense, and 
erect on the head and prothorax ; antennas long, reaching beyond the 
shoulders, joints nearly twice as long as broad, slightly compressed; head 
and prothorax deeply and closely punctate, the former has a frontal 
impression and a deeply impressed line from there to the epistome ; 
prothorax slightly longer than broad, very slightly wider in the centre 
than at the base, attenuated gradually from near the central part to the 
apex which is half the width of the base, in the centre of the disk is an 
elongated ovate impression and none at the base ; elytra elongated, sub- 
cylindrical, only moderately singly rounded at apex, weakly coriaceous, 
and each with a very slight, often indistinct discoidal longitudinal raised 
line ; under side and legs closely aciculate ; outer spur of hind tibiae 
thickened, truncate at tip. 
Length 11-15 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Ceres, Worcester, 
Knysna). 
Canthaeis pallidipennis, Haag-Rut., 
Plate XXII., figs. 14, Ua, Ub. 
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1880, p. 66. 
Very dark cyaneous, antennae and palps black ; elytra flavescent red 
glabrous, the other parts of the body clothed with a fuscous pubescence ; 
antennae reaching the shoulders but not beyond it, joints slightly 
attenuate at the base, about twice as long as broad at apex ; head deeply 
and closely pitted and having a short, frontal, weakly impressed line ; 
prothorax distinctly broader at a short distance from the apex than at the 
base, deeply and closely punctate, and having in the centre a short deeply 
impressed line, and occasionally a narrow, elongated impression ; elytra 
elongated, sub-cylindrical, sub-coriaceous and with tine irregularly disposed 
and remote punctures, on each side are two plain discoidal costules, and 
occasionally a third supra-marginal one is discernible ; under side and legs 
