298 Annals of tJtc Soiitli African JSIuscum. 



in mare magis ovato ampliata minusque postice acuminata, singu- 

 latim rotundata, post medium praesertim ad latera obsolete striolata, 

 striolis impunctatis, convexa, pone basim propter siaturam leviter 

 ((3^) vel profunde atque late ( ? ) utrimque longitudinaliter impressa, 

 creberrime aciculato punctata tenuissimeque griseo pubescentia; 

 pedes elongati, subgraciles, femoribus ampliatis, brevissime pubes- 

 centibus, tibiis intus ad apicem tarsisque manifeste subflavescente 

 sericeis. 



Long. 5^5f mm. ; lat. li— 2- mm. 



Allied to M. deiistus, Thunb., and likewise found in wet moss on 

 the Table Mountain Eange, but it differs in the colour of the elytra 

 which are darker red, and not infuscate at apex, the legs are entirely 

 black instead of having the base of the femoi'a and the tibiae 

 rufescent ; the elytra have no traces in either sex of a basal trans- 

 verse impression as in 31. deustns, and the stiff hairs situated on the 

 lower part of the two basal antennal joints are less numerous, and 

 also shorter than in M. deustns. 



Cape Colony (Cape Town). L. Peringuey. 



Mastigus pkomontorii, n. sp. 



Niger, elytris rufotestaceis parte postica leviter infuscata ; 

 antennae subtenues nigrae, pubescentes, articulo primo pilis rigidis 

 sparsis subtus obsito ; caput confertim punctulatum, tenuissimc 

 pubescens, postice profunde canaliculatum ; prothorax latitudine 

 duplo longior, ante medium perparum ampliatus deinde valde com- 

 pressus sinuatusque, supra convexus, post medium disci utrinque 

 depressus basi autem transversim impressus, ibi puncto supra laterali 

 utrimque praeditus, in medio longitudinaliter carinatus, lateribus 

 inferne plaga testacea notatis ; elytra elongato ovata, in femina quam 

 in mare magis ovato ampliata posticeque acuminata, apice oblique 

 singulatim truncata, post basim ( S ) convexa, vel ( $ ) leviter 

 depressa, impressione sub-humerali vix profunda utrimque pncdita, 

 obsolete striata striis dorsalibus duabus primis manifestioribus 

 profundiusque punctatis ; pedes elongati, sub-graciles, tibiis tarsisque 

 brevissime pubescentibus. 



Long. 6-6f mm. ; lat. 2-2 J mm. 



Differs from M. deustus, Thunb., and M. tahidce, especially from 

 the latter, by the much denser appressed pubescence on the elytra, 

 the longer maxillary palps the 2nd joint of which is longer than the 

 two apical ones taken together ; each elytron is more obliquely 

 truncate at the apex in both sexes which have also no traces of a 

 longitudinal sulcate impression along the suture at a short distance 



