376 Trans. Acad. ScL of St. Louis. 



grooves slightly converging, the ocular represented in great part by a 

 large puncture above each eye; vertex broadly impunctate along the 

 middle; prothorax only about a fifih longer than wide, narrovyer than 

 the head, the anterior angles rounded; sides only very slightly converg- 

 ing, feebly sinuate toward the middle, the base unusually broad, 

 rounded, only slightly narrower than the base of the elytra, the serial 

 punctures coarse; elytra but little longer than wide, a little longer than 

 the prothorax, wider than the latter and somewhat wider than th<j head, 

 subparallel; punctnres rather strong and sparse, irregular, with two 

 partial series externally and a smooth line along the summit of the 

 flanks and thencemoderateIyclosely,irregolarly punctured to the lower 

 margin ; abdomen only slightly narrower than the elytra, very minutely 

 strigilate, finely, sparsely punctulate, with a narrow median impunc- 

 tate area. Length 7.6 mm.; width 1.18 mm. Cape Town. 



grossnlns a. sp. 



Btout but less so than the preceding, similar iu coloration, except that the 

 black is not bronied and the elytra are pale luteo-flavate, becoming 

 gradually and increasingly Infumate with blackish- piceous from about 

 apical third or fourth to the base; head convex, behind the antennae as 

 long as wide, the frontal grooves converging as in grossulut and similar 

 otherwise; prothorax a little narrower, more elongate and more strongly 

 narrowed from the rounded apical angles to the base, which is rounded 

 and very distinctly narrower than the base of the elytra, the sides nearly 

 straight, the serial punctures strong; elytra slightly elongate, subpar- 

 allel, distinctly wider than the prothorax, as long as the latter iu the 

 female but slightly shorter in the male, much wider than the head in 

 the former but not so obviously in the latter sex, the punctuation nearly 

 similar to that of groasulus, though perhaps sparser as a whole and 

 rather more condensed along the suture; abdomen narrower, distinctly 

 narrower than the elytra, simlliarly punctured. Length 6.5-7.25 mm.; 

 width 0.9-1.0 mm. Wellington famipenuis n. sp. 



8 — Body more slender than in the two preceding species, black, shining, 

 the elytra generally black, sometimes paler; the legs and antennae 

 blackish-piceous, the tarsi paler; head behind the antennae as long as 

 wide in the male, smaller and somewhat more elongate in the female, 

 distinctly though not so coarsely, very remotely punctate, with the usual 

 broad smooth area along the middle, the under surface more finely, 

 very sparsely punctate; prothorax elongate, one-third to two-fifths 

 longer than wide, fully as wide as the head In the female, and nearly as 

 wide in the male, the apical angles broadly rounded, the sides only very 

 feebly converging and nearly straight thence to the base; punctures of 

 the dorsal series strong; elytra quadrate in the male, somewhat elon- 

 gate in the female, more.distinctly wider than the prothorax in the latter, 

 where the two are equal in length, the elytra relatively shorter in the 

 male; punctures rather numerous and coarse, forming two irregular 

 series externally except toward tip; abdomen rather distinctly narrower 

 than the elytra, finely, sparsely punctulate, except along the middle as 

 usual. Length 5.8-6.2 mm. ; width 0.78-0.85 mm. Cape Town and 

 Wellington hottentotus Sachse 



Body equally slender and still smaller, dark piceous to blackish in color, 



