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the pale apical margin noticeable in the corresponding ex- 

 amples of Schaumi.* 



* The following species occurs In South Africa in the neighborhood of 



the Cape: — 



Slender, piceous-black, shining, the elytra sometimes pale along the suture 

 and at apex; le, the antennae blackish; head small, parallel, 

 elongate, with rounded basal angles, the surface convex and with fine 

 scattered punctures along the base of the occiput, on the flanks and on 

 the under surface, elsewhere impunctate, except a setigerous puncture 

 at the middle of the upper margin of the eye, and, at each side of the 

 middle in apical half, a longitudinal series of some four or five 

 similar punctures; surface minutely strigllate, very feebly behind but 

 more finely, strongly and subreticularly anteriorly; eyes rather promi- 

 nent; prothorax much wider than the head, oblong, scarcely visibly 

 narrowed anteriorly, the apex and base subequal and broadly rounded, 

 nearly a third longer than wide, with the sides feebly arcuate, the angles 

 rounded; disk convex, with an oblong quadrilateral of four punctures 

 at the centre, one more anterior and slightly more lateral, and an arcu- 

 ate sublateral series of three or four punctures anteriorly at each side; 

 alsoothers disposed along the lateral and anterior margins; elytra much 

 wider but distinctly shorter than the prothorax, fully as long as wide, 

 each with three series of setigerous punctures, otherwise punctureless; 

 abdomen at base as wide as the elytra, finely, moderately closely, as- 

 perately punctulate and with flue decumbent pubescence in addition to 

 the tactile setae bristling from the sides, present also at the sides of the 

 head, prothorax and elytra. Length 3.0 mm.; width 48 ram. Well- 

 ington astatns n. sp. 



The sixth ventral of the male is scarcely more than half as wide as the 



fifth, with its apex sinuato -truncate; the anterior tarsi of the same sex are 



broadly dilated. 



ADDENDUM. 



During the course of the present work the follovring exotic 

 genera and species, or those occurring beyond the limits of 

 the nearctic fauna, have been described as new : — 



NAME. NATIVE COUNTRY. PAGE. 



Ctenochara Europe 128, 134 



Notiochara .South Africa 129, 134 



N. subaspera " 134 



N. stibiosa ♦* 135 



Polystomota Europe 132 , 136 



