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C^ Antennae serrate. 
Black, with the elytra brownish red, very densely greyish 
pubescent ; prothorax nearly as broad as long, strongly 
attenuate laterally in front, straight from the median part 
to the base optata. 
B^. Hind spurs contiguous at the base, inner one longer than the outer. 
Black, with the elytra and legs very pale flavescent ; inner spur 
considerably longer than the outer ohiepana. 
Dark green, turning sometimes to dark blue, clothed with a black 
pubescence, both spurs long, contiguous and obliquely truncate 
at apex metalleficena. 
Black, with the elytra purplish red, clothed with a blackish and 
greyish pubescence ; prothorax closely punctate hoscJihuana. 
Black, with the elytra purplish or pale red and clothed with a 
black and greyish pubescence ; prothorax finely and closely 
aciculate, impressed in the centre pallidipennis. 
Black, with the elytra pale red, clothed with a very dense greyish 
pubescence ; prothorax finely and closely aciculate, not impressed 
in the centre ruhripeniiU. 
k}. Elytra depressed on the dorsal part. 
B. Hind spurs quite free, of equal length, ampliate before the apex, 
and sharp there. 
Black, with the elytra senescent ; clothed all over with a dense, 
erect pubescence . . . . planidorsis. 
ISELMA UESUS, Thunb., 
Dissert, nov. spec. Insect., vi., 1789, p. 107; Billb., Mon. Myl., 1813, p. 73 ; 
Haag-Eut., Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., xxiii., 1879, p. 403. 
Black, shiny, clothed with a long black pubescence, erect on the head 
and prothorax, more appressed on the elytra ; antennae long, filiform, 
joints sub-cylindrical but slightly compressed ; head covered with 
contiguous aciculate punctures ; prothorax ampliate ovate, gradually 
attenuated into a neck, very convex, covered with sub-scrobiculate, 
contiguous punctures, and having in the centre of the disk a median, 
sub-carinate line ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra elongated, weakly 
sinuate laterally, slightly ampliate behind and covered with deep foveolate 
punctures, somewhat unequal and separated by a narrow wall ; under 
side very closely aciculate ; legs very pubescent ; hind spurs somewhat 
whitish, of nearly equal length, free and sharp at tip. 
Length 10-13 mm. ; width 3|— 5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 
