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Shiny ; head and prothorax red, elytra ferruginous red and 

 slightly darker in the median dorsal than on the posterior dehiscent 

 part ; antennae long, moderately slender, pale llavescent like the 

 palps and the legs ; head impunctate, sulci moderately deep ; pro- 

 thorax impunctate, nearly twice as broad as the median length, 

 ampliate rounded laterally for three-fourths of the length, the 

 greatest ampliation being in the anterior third part, sinuate thence 

 to the outer angle, which is very sharp and plainly reflexed ; elytra 

 oblong-ovate and having on each side in addition to the juxta-sutural 

 four more strise beginning at the same distance from the base ; of 

 these the first three, which are deep and punctate, reach to about 

 two-thirds of the length, stopping, however, at some distance from 

 the horseshoe-shaped posterior sulcus, the fifth is shorter, reaching 

 only the median part, very shallow and not punctulate ; the supra- 

 marginal posterior sinuose sulcus is strongly defined. 



Length 3 mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Malvern). C. N. Barker. 



Tachys vescus, n. sp. 



Niger, nitidissimus, antennarum articulis omnibus pedibusque 

 pallide flavidis ; caput impunctatum, antennae nonnihil breves 

 articulis crassiusculis ; prothorax latiusculus longitudine in medio 

 tertio latior, lateribus ante medium modice ampliato rotundatis, 

 deinde baud sinuatis, angulo postico baud reflexo; elytra oblonga, 

 prothorace triplo longiora basique tertio latiora, utrinque quadrifariam 

 anguste striata, stria juxta suturali indistincte punctulata, Integra at 

 apice vix prominula, secunda tertiaque ad punctum posticum 

 tantum modo continuatis secunda baud breviore at angustiore, ad 

 latera seriebus punctorum duabus fere obliteratis vel vix distinctis, 

 praedita, sulco arcuato posticali nuUo, sulco supra marginali postico 

 profundo. 



Long. 2J mm. ; lat. 1 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Malvern). C. N. Barker. 



Tachys jucundulus, n. sp. 



Nigro fuscus, nitidissimus ; antennis nonnihil infuscatis articulis 

 autem basalibus tribus pallide flavis ; prothorace fusco, marginibus 

 pallidioribus ; elytris nitentibus margine laterali posticaque anguste 

 flavescentibus, macula elongata supra-humerali alteraque rotundata 

 supra-fossulam posticam sita in singulo ornatis ; pedes pallide flavi. 

 Antennae elongatae, graciles ; caput impunctatum ; prothorax levis 



