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head, moderate eyes and posteriorly oblique sides and very broadly 

 rounded hind angles, of the prothorax. The emargination of the 

 mentum is large and deep, broadly parabolic in form, without trace 

 of tooth, the mouth rather abbreviated between the mandibles and 

 the mentum, the labial palpi rather slender, the second joint almost 

 as long as the third, with two moderate longer, and about two very 

 short, setae, the third joint very gradually acuminate, the fourth of 

 the maxillary about twice as long as the third and the last joint of 

 the outer maxillary lobe rather short and thick, moderately acumi- 

 nate. The structure of the upper surface of the head is unique in 

 the subfamily Harpalinee, so that a separate group may have to be 

 formed for this genus, perhaps more in the neighborhood of the 

 Broscini. There is beyond doubt but one supra-orbital seta, 

 situated opposite posterior third of the eye and at some distance 

 from the latter; the epistoma is broadly circularly sinuate and it, 

 as well as the frontal surface adjoining, is perfectly plane and 

 without trace of frontal foveae of any sort. The elytra are oblong, 

 subtruncate at tip, without sharply marked striae, these being in 

 the form of very feeble superficial eroded lines in the position of 

 the regular striae, the scutellar stria distinct and rather long, par- 

 allel; the single discal puncture is unusually posterior in position, 

 being at apical fifth, the line of lateral foveae widely interrupted. 

 The hind tarsi are very slender, the basal joint rather longer than 

 the next two combined. The type may be described as follows: 



*A. cephalotes n. sp. Rather narrowly suboblong, moderately con- 

 vex, shining throughout (cT), the elytra (9) slightly alutaceous, deep 

 black throughout, the entire legs blackish rufo-piceous, the antennae, 

 extending onto the base of the elytra, very slender, black, the basal 

 joint testaceous; head rounded, very nearly as wide as the prothorax, the 

 surface very evenly convex, the eyes relatively moderate and not very 

 convex; prothorax one-half wider than long, widest near apical third, 

 the sides rounded, gradually oblique and less arcuate posteriorly and very 

 broadly rounded through the angles to the transverse median part of the 

 base, the latter barely three-fourths as wide as the apex, which is feebly 

 sinuato-truncate, the surface moderately and subevenly convex, not 

 punctate and unimpressed, finely reflexed at the sides, the stria short, 

 very fine, the anterior transverse impression fine but sometimes visible, 

 rather close to the apex; elytra oblong, parallel, with feebly arcuate sides, 

 two-fifths longer than wide, between a third and fourth wider than the 

 prothorax, the subtransverse apices truncate or just visibly sinuate; side 

 margins only very finely reflexed; legs slender. Length (cf 9 ) 3.3-3.6 

 mm.; width 1.2 mm. South Africa (Wellington, about 50 miles from 

 Cape Town). Two examples. 



