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with a bunch of thick squamiform bristles hke two of the St. Helena 

 species {N. harbatus and N. fimbriatus), and also the closely allied 

 form Echinosoma porcelkis from the Madeiran archipelago, teste 

 Wollaston. The eyes in the two South African species consist of 

 a few coarse facets, and all the tibiae are very strongly unciform. 



This last character differentiates them from Nesiotes, in which the 

 anterior tibiae only are unciform, and from Echinosoma, in which the 

 anterior and intermediate ones, but not the posterior, are shaped in 

 that manner. If these differences were thought by other Coleopterists 

 to be sufficiently important to justify the creation of a new genus, I 

 would propose the name of Ncsiotophasis for these two South African 

 species. 



Nesiotes capicola, n. sp. 

 Plate v., fig. 3. 



Elongato-ovatus, ferrugineus, squamis elongatis in punctis sitis 

 sparsim obsitus, pedibus dense squamulosis; rostro arcuato, basi 

 apiceque quam in medio nonnihil latiore, profunde punctato, medio 

 linea levi ; antennis crassiusculis, ante medium sitis, scapo squamis 

 elongatis crassis intus ad medium barbato, articulo 2° quam 3° latiore, 

 haud sensim longiore, reliquis baud laxis, clava ovalis, baud acuminata, 

 Integra, apice spongiosa ; capite sparsim punctato, oculis e granulis 

 nonnullis formatis; prothorace antice lateraliter oblique constrict© 

 deinde fere parallel© sed ad basim leviter attenuato, profunde punctato 

 carinulaque media levi instructo ; scutello nullo ; elytris connatis, 

 elongato-ovatis, alte costatis, interstitiis profunde punctatis ; subtus 

 parce punctatus, segmentis abdominis duobus primis connatis at 

 linea plus minusve in medio obliterata divisis, in medio late pro- 

 fundeque depressis (an J ), segment© ultimo profunde conferteque 

 squamulato punctato ; tibiis totis in uncum magnum arcuatum apice 

 productis, tarsorum articulo tertio vix dilatato, unguiculis brevibus, 

 liberis. 



Length 2^-2f mm. ; width li^-li mm. 



Hah. Cape Town. In leaf mould. 



Nesiotes promontoeii, n. sp. 

 Plate v., figs. 1-2. 



Ovatus, piceus vel ferrugineus, sub-nitidus, squamis crassiusculis 

 in punctis sitis sparsis, in femoribus tibiisque densissimis obsitus ; 

 rostro sparsim punctato foveolato, medio linea brevi haud elevata ; 

 antennis crassiusculis, ante medium sitis, articulo 2° quam 3° latiore, 

 haud sensim longiore, scapo ad apicem intus dense squamoso, oculis 



