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from the base to about the median part of the disk ; scutellum and elytra 
punctulate shagreened, and bearing each a distinct discoidal costule 
running from the base to past the median part where it vanishes, and 
also a much less distinct, juxta-sutural one beginning at some distance 
from the base and slightly shorter than the discoidal ; under side finely 
aciculate, the aciculate punctures less closely set on the pectus than on 
the abdomen. 
Length 7-9 mm. ; width 2-2^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Stellenbosch, Ceres, King Wilhams 
town). 
Nemognatha inteemedia, n. sp. 
The differences between this species and the preceding ones are very 
slight ; the punctures on the head and prothorax are deeper and still more 
closely set ; the prothorax is plainly more ampliated laterally in the 
anterior part ; the elytra are alike, but the three or four apical abdominal 
segments are red, and the fourth is even occasionally greenish blue 
laterally ; maxillary lobe shorter than the head. 
Length 8-9|- mm. ; width 2^-3|^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (King Williainstown) ; Transvaal (Pretoria, Water- 
berg, Zoutpansberg). 
Nemognatha meraca, n. sp. 
Dark greenish blue, briefly pubescent ; the whole abdomen pale red, 
or occasionally with the sides of the basal one greenish blue ; head closely 
punctate, but the punctures instead of being rugulose as in the two 
preceding species are smooth and not quite contiguous ; the maxillary 
lobe is greatly elongated, being quite as long as the head and prothorax 
taken together ; in shape the prothorax is like that of N. capensis, that is 
to say slightly ampliate rounded laterally ; a little in front of the median 
part, it has likewise a median depression from the middle to the base, and 
the customary transverse impression in front of the depression is mode- 
rately plain, but the punctures are round, smooth, and separated by an 
interval about equal to their diameter ; elytra finely coriaceous sub- 
shagreened and without traces of any distinct costules, except in the 
anterior part ; under side closely aciculate. 
Length 7-9-|- mm. ; width 2-3 mm. 
Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). 
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