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Mr. O. E. Janson’s Notices of

sparsely punctured. Scutellum with scattered coarse punctures,black, the centre red. Elytra pale ochreous-yellow, the sutureand apex black, coarsely punctured, the disc with severalirregular rows of punctures. Pygidium reddish-testaceous,blackish at the base, finely strigose. Underside shining black,the apical and the posterior margin of the penultimate segmentof the abdomen red; metasternum with very coarse confluentpunctures at the sides, the centre deeply impressed, mesosternalprocess short and rather obtuse, coarsely punctured at its base;legs red, knees and tarsi pitchy, anterior tibiae narrow andwithout lateral teeth, intermediate and posterior tibiae stronglyconstricted beyond the middle on the outer sides, and fringedinwardly with yellow hair. Length 15 mm.

Natal.

Closely allied to M. umbonata , G.P., but of a much moreparallel form, more convex, with the scutellum coarsely punc-tured, the thorax and elytra more strongly punctured, themesosternal process very much shorter and strongly puncturedat its base, and the intermediate and posterior tibiae, especiallythe former, more constricted before the apex and with largerlateral teeth.

Melinesthes serripes, n. sp.

Elongate, sub-parallel; reddish-testaceous, shining; two smallspots at the base of the head, two large discoidal, posteriorlydilated, marks on the thorax and a small spot on each side ofthe scutellum black ; elytra straw-yellow, the basal, sutural andapical margins and humeral callosities chesnut-red. Headslightly convex in the centre, closely punctured, the punctureslarger but less close towards the base; clypeus elongate, theapical margin narrowly reflexed and slightly emarginate. Thoraxmoderately rounded at the sides in the middle, the base obliqueon each side and shallowly emarginate in the centre before thescutellum; closely and coarsely punctured, the punctures con-fluent and forming striae at the sides in front. Scutellum large,with coarse scattered punctures, the sides impressed and theapex acute. Elytra rather sparsely and finely punctured withrows of large variolose punctures on the disc, the apex strigose,the suture elevated behind and slightly produced at the apex.Pygidium slightly convex, finely strigose. Beneath coarselystrigose and punctate, with sparse grey pubescence; mesosternalprocess short, broad and somewhat flattened, its apex veryobtuse; abdomen with a shallow longitudinal impression. Legs