442 Annals of the South African Museum. 



MEZIUM NATALENSE, 



Plate VII., fig. 14, 14a. 



Brunneo-rufum, nitidum ; caput dense flavo-pubescens ; antennae 

 pubescentes, graciles, ultra medium corporis attingentes, articulis 

 fere aequalibus, apice vix setulosis ; pro thorax indumento flavescente, 

 parce setuloso, dense obtectus, utrinque distincte canaliculatus, 

 margine lateral! acuta, ad medium aculeata, dein basi attenuata, 

 recta, disco callo valde elevato postice sulco lato a basi ultra 

 medium diviso, margine antica sulco angustiori circulatim divisa ; 

 elytra globosa, sat acute costata, costis basi fasciculatis, setis erectis 

 confertis seriatim obsitis, interstitiis distincte punctatis ; pedes tarsique 

 pube squamosa dense obtecti, illis apice setulosis; subtus pectore ab- 

 domineque setis squamosis decumbentibus confertis, obtectis. Long. 

 2-2J mm. ; lat. 1$-1| mm. 



Hab. Natal (Estcourt). A. E. Haviland. 



D AMARUS, gen. nov. 



Mezio veresimilis ab illo diff'ert antennis validioribus, 10-articulatis, 

 articulis setis rigidis, crassis coronatis, articulo basali valido, oblique 

 truncate, extrorsum deflexo, apice valde oblique truncato, secundo 

 primo multo breviore, in latera ejusdem externe sito, 3-9 obconicis, 

 ultimo duobus praecedentibus simul sumptis longitudine nonnihil 

 breviore, baud latiore, apice acute acuminate, haud setoso atque 

 mesosterno latiore, rotundato. 



The last joint of the antennae shows in the female a very faint 

 trace of suture at about the median part, where the tenth and 

 eleventh joints have become fused. 



DAMABUS SINGULAKIS, 

 Plate VII., fig. 18. 



Totus niger, glaber, capite, prothorace, pectore abdominisque 

 segmentis basalibus tribus indumento cretaceo, nitido obtecto ; caput 

 supra leve, vertice profunde sparsim punctato, punctis profundis 

 setarn rigidam, validam ferentibus ; prothorax transversus, inermis, 

 lateraliter angulatus, in dorso distincte bi-callosus, ad latera medioque 

 postice leviter sulcatus ; scutellum glabrum ; elytra globosa, nitida, 

 sutura costisque acute carinatis tribus, duabus discoidalibus basi 

 hamatis, utrinque praedita, interstitiis latis ; pedes tarsique crassi, 



