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Sardoides viridicollisj sp. n. 
Metallic-greenish, the antennae and legs flavous, thorax impunc- 
tate, bifoveolate, elytra finely and sparingly punctured, flavous, 
the sutural and lateral margins metallic- green. Length, 2-3 lines. 
Head broad, impunctate, eyes large, frontal elevations broad 
and transverse, clypeus deeply concave-emarginate, its anterior 
margin and labrum flavous ; antennse slender, nearly as long as the 
body, flavous, all the joints, with the exception of the small 
second one, of equal length ; thorax one-half broader than long, 
narrowed at the base, the sides rounded and widened before the 
middle, the angles acute, slightly thickened, the surface with two 
deep fove^, which are nearly united at the middle, impunctate, 
metallic-green ; scutellum black ; elytra rather depressed, finely 
punctured in irregular rows, flavous, narrowly margined with 
metallic dark green, trheir epipleurse continued below the middle ; 
legs slender, flavous, tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the posterior 
tarsi as long as the following joints together, claws appendiculate, 
anterior cotyloid cavities open. 
Hab. Cape Town, Natal. 
Sermyla maculata^ sp. n. 
Oblong-ovate, testaceous, the head partly, the antennae, tibiae, 
and tarsi black, thorax impunctate, obscurely spotted with piceous, 
elytra extremely finely and closely punctured, an elongate spot on 
the shoulder, a round one near the scutellum, two connected spots 
below the middle and the apex black ; breast and femora piceous 
Length, 3^ lines. 
Head rather broad, blackish at the vertex and between the 
eyes, the former impunctate, frontal elevations broadly oblique, 
clypeus black, finely rugose, its anterior margin nearly straight, 
labrum testaceous, palpi rather slender, piceous ; antennae not 
extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the third joint only 
slightly longer than the second, half the length of the third joint, 
the following joints of nearly equal length ; thorax nearly three 
times broader than long, the sides deflexed, narrowed in front, 
the lateral margins nearly straight, posterior margin slightly 
rounded, anterior angles obliquely thickened ; the surface impunc- 
tate, testaceous, with some obscure piceous spots near the base ; 
scutellum triangular, piceous ; elytra finely and extremely closely 
punctured, testaceous, their apex rather broadly rounded and 
slightly narrowed, an elongate spot on the shoulder, a round one 
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