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Annals of the South African Museum. 



Build slender; general colour yellowish and reddish brown. 



Antennas dark brown, with 12 segments, all cylindrical, the fourth 

 a little shorter than the third. 



Head ferruginous, smooth ; sutures obsolete. 



Pronotum yellowish brown, rectangular, transverse, depressed. 



Elytra present merely as small lateral flaps, exposing the greater 

 part of ths mesonotum and all the metanotum, which are of the 

 same colour as the pronotum. 



Legs dirty yellow ; tarsi slender, first and third segments about 

 equally long. 



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FIG. 7. (a) M. kaffir <? ; (b) forceps i . 



Abdomen yellowish ferruginous, passing to deep red-brown 

 apically, and gradually dilated towards the apex. 



Last dorsal segment transverse, with an irregular median depres- 

 sion and tumid, obtuse tubercle on each side. 



Penultimate ventral segment broadly rounded. 



Pygidium depressed, broad, like a slightly upturned plate, with a 

 broad triangular emargination and triangular lobe on each side. 



Forceps with the branches remote, slender, cylindrical, gently 

 arcuate, with a strong, triangular laminate tooth on the inner 

 margin at the extreme base. 



Cape Colony : Dunbrody, 1 3 , January 14, 1903. 



This species is well characteristic by the emarginate pygidium, 



