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angusta, longe pone medium posita plagaque breve apicali, communi, 

 ornata. Long. 3 mm. ; lat. 1|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



Belongs to the same group as P. pulchellus, &c. 



PTINUS HILARIS. 



Brunneo-ferrugineus, antennis pedibusque dilutioribus, pube 

 flavescente vestitus ; caput longe pilosum ; antennae corpore non- 

 nihil breviores, articulo primo valido, tertio secundo perparum 

 longiore, caateris elongatis, aequalibus, ultimo praecsdenti nonnihil 

 longiore, sub-fusiformi ; prothorax antice fere cylindricus, a medio 

 basi valde coarctatus, in medio disci atque ad latera tenuissime canali- 

 culatus, pilis decumbentibus flavescentibus sparse obtectus cristisque 

 medianis rotundatis quatuor parum elevatis, e pilis densioribus 

 formatis, munitus ; scutellum infuscatum ; elytra ovalia, profunde 

 punctata, interstitiis angustis, sub-acutis, breviter setulosis ; setis 

 seviatis, confertis ; pedes dense pubescentes. Long. 3 mm. ; lat. 

 l.\ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



The general appearance, owing to the ovate elytra, approximates, 

 among the South African species, that of P. affinis, Per., but the 

 shape of the five basal joints of the antennas and also the disposition 

 of the fasciculated hairs on the elytra are very different. 



GEN. MEZIUM, Curt. 

 MEZIUM NOTIALE. 



Brunneo-rufum ; caput dense flavo pubescens ; antennae pu- 

 bescentes, fere medium corporis attingentes, articulis, ultimis duobus 

 exceptis, asqualibus, squamoso pubescentibus, apice breviter setulosis ; 

 prothorax pube flava lanuginosa dense obsitus, distincte longitudi- 

 naliter tri-canaliculatus, interstitiis rotundatis, setulosis, elevatis, 

 postice in tuberculum sat validum, rotundatum, a parte anterior! 

 haud disjunctum productis ; elytra globosa, acute costata, costis 

 sparse fulvo squarnosis, basi conspicue squamoso fasciculatis, setis 

 erectis nonnullis seriatis, obsitis ; pedes tarsique pube squamosa 

 dense obtecti ; pectore abdomineque setis squamosis, decumbentibus, 

 confertis, obtectis. Long 2 mm. ; lat. 1^- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



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